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- From: slegge@kean.ucs.mun.ca
- Subject: Dougherty thoughts and PC/GEOS in the media
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.190940.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
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- Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:39:40 GMT
-
- The following is portions from EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES by Tom Campbell
- from the Jan '93 issue of COMPUTE (re-printed without permission --
- please don't sue!)
-
- "In 1995 our two boys, Peter and John, will be halfway through high
- school and on its cusp, respectively. Brian Dougherty of GeoWorks
- thinks they'll be slipping personal information managers (PIMs) in
- their backpacks... Dougherty, who's already earned his place in
- history for creating GeoWorks, the Windows that should have been,
- knows as well as the next person just how lucrative it could be if
- Peter and John were carrying user-friendly palmtops to help them track
- assignments and bone up for Language Arts, whatever that is. He also
- knows it'll mean better hardware at a fraction of the current price,
- and he knows whereof he speaks. Hush-hush deals in the works to
- develop the next-generation user interface software also tell him that
- the price will be right: under $500 for a palmtop of the Newton
- variety.
-
- [then there's something about Modular Windows and that it will appear
- in "Tandy's new multimedia player" and something about "the dawn of
- Windows NT, a Lego-like operating system that's only 60K at its
- core."]
-
- "GeoWorks is still the king of lightweight operating systems with
- heavyweight features, but it isn't the only player in the game. And
- it doesn't have 20 000 working developers in its court."
-
- ---
-
- It's good to see that GeoWorks is still occasionally mentioned in the
- press. (There was a reasonably favorable article comparing a wide
- variety of GUIs in PC WORLD a few months ago.)
-
- However, this seems to be the *very* tail-end of publicity for
- GeoWorks Pro. COMPUTE was (as far as I know) the last magazine
- GeoWorks was running a monthly ad in -- and as of this month, that
- also seems to have ended.
-
- And when leafing through PC Magazine, I notice that many mail-order
- houses have removed GeoWorks Pro from their product lists.
-
- Here's hoping that GeoWorks doesn't fade out -- and that we can hope
- for an extreme resurgence of PC/GEOS media support in the new year!
-
- Merry Christmas.
-
- Stephen Legge
- SLEGGE@kean.ucs.mun.ca
-
-