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johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (John D. Mitchell) writes:

>GEOS is the name of the system and does *NOT* stand for anything.

So it HAS been changed.  Quoting the cover of my GEOS 2.0 manual (that's
*Commodore* GEOS 2.0, folks ;) - 

"GEOS(TM)  Graphic Environment Operating System"

I guess when Berkeley Softworks became Geoworks, it sold itself the rights
to the name GEOS, then promptly got rid of whatever it stood for. ;)

>But why would anyone want to run much slower on much more expensive
>hardware and that has a shorter battery life?  :-? :-)

Simple, John.  To balance out the technosadists like myself who enjoy
torturing software, the world needs an equivalent number of technomasochists
who enjoy being tortured by software.  (Bill Gates' secret fetish... ;)

>The System Software Overview has been completely rewritten and was not done
>in GeoWrite (I don't know why not either).  And no it won't be posted
>electronically.

Feh.  Foo.  Bar.  Baz.  I suppose if I bought it then typed it in (using
GeoWrite) and uploaded it, they'd be rather upset, too.  (Although somehow
I suspect the SSO is not responsible for a significant chunk of Geoworks'
revenue...)

-Shag

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