GeoWorks

GeoWorks , or PC/GEOS , is an graphical interface for the PC compatibles created by the company Berkeley Softworks, known later under the name of GeoWorks.

The first version of GeoWorks left in 1990. It offered impressive performances for the time: graphical interface with icons (based on Reason), police forces vectorial, multitask, and this same on PC/XT. Its performances were excellent compared to Windows 3.0 because GeoWorks was programmed directly in Assembleur.

At the time, GeoWorks was delivered of origin with many PC, but it was finally exceeded by Windows, just as the other alternative graphical interfaces like GEM.

This failure is due partly to the difficulty in carrying out programs for GeoWorks: the handbooks cost 1.000 dollars alone, and moreover, it was necessary to use two computers connected by port series. To crown the whole, the first version of the kit of development functioned only on one station Sun SPARC, much more expensive than a PC. Version PC of the kit of development was available only later. In comparison, it was relatively easy to program under Windows.

GeoWorks Together

The software was marketed in the form of an office automation continuation called ( GeoWorks Ensemble ), which included/understood at the same time the graphic environment (PC/GEOS) and some software (manager of GeoManager files, GeoWrite word processing, vectorial design software GeoCalc, plus some accessories of office). This software was simple, but reliable and neat.

Versions of GeoWorks Together:

1990: OS/90 (beta release)
1990: GeoWorks 1.0
1991 : GeoWorks 1.2
1992 : GeoWorks 1.2 Pro (delivered with the spreadsheet Borland Quattro Pro adapted to PC/GEOS)
1992: GeoWorks DTP
1992 : GeoWorks CD Manager
1993: GeoWorks Together 2.0 (new core PC/GEOS 2.0)
1993: Geopublish 2.0

GeoWorks Ensemble was diffused in France by the company The Disk Company .

Thereafter, the GeoWorks company gave up the market of the desktop machines to concentrate on the mobile devices. Thus, GeoWorks was found on certain telephones Nokia (9000 and 9110).

Attempts at reintroduction

At the end of the Années 1990, the company New Deal took again the development of the software, which led to version 3 of PC/GEOS. Various office automation parcellings were proposed between 1996 and 2000, under the name of New Deal Office . The objective was to allure the owners of old computers, incompetents to make function Windows 95 or 98.

After bankruptcy of New Deal , the rights were taken again by the company Breadbox , which markets PC/GEOS version 4 under the name of Breadbox Ensemble .

External bond

Breadbox, which diffuses the heir to GeoWorks

Random links: