From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 29 13:55:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from rallos.eatonform.com (rallos.eatonform.com [206.190.178.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C84C237B422 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 13:55:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rch@acidpit.org) Received: (from rch@localhost) by rallos.eatonform.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f4TGkc588228 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 29 May 2001 16:46:38 GMT Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 16:46:38 +0000 From: Robert Hough To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The desktop apathy Message-ID: <20010529164638.A87972@acidpit.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010528020324.0487b570@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> <20010527172838.A11174@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010528020324.0487b570@localhost> <20010528140153.A58103@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> <4.3.2.7.2.20010528153532.0488ac10@localhost> <20010529124411.B59899@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010529124411.B59899@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net>; from ugly-daemon@home.com on Tue, May 29, 2001 at 12:44:11 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, May 29, 2001, Chris Moline wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:38:14PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > > One of the most underrated desktops -- and one I would dearly love > > to see ported to the BSDs -- is GeoWorks. Tiny, super-efficient, > > object-oriented, and INCREDIBLY fast. It was shoehorned into MS-DOS > > with great effort.... The nasty, snaky code that retrofitted it into > > this environment could be removed, leaving a REALLY neat GUI. > > Say, could you hand me a site where I could see some sreenshots and such. All I > have been able to find is a whole bunch of stuff on WAP wars and NewDeal. NewDeal Office is what GeoWorks has become. It's been so long, I honestly don't remember what the geoworks desktop looked like. I'll agree though, for it's time, it was damned nice. Not really too sure how it would compare in this day and age though... http://www.newdealinc.com/products/products_main.asp?page_name=office -- Robert Hough (rch@acidpit.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message