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To: JC Jaros who wrote (46729)	6/15/2000 2:36:00 AM
From: mozek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Dream on... Refuting your misinformation: GEOworks was a better product Geoworks wasn't a real applications environment as much as a graphical applet-host. While it was running, you could not run DOS programs, it didn't really multitask, and the applets that it ran were useless for any real work. You might as well make an argument for Gem. At least Gem had a couple real apps. Desqview handled multitasking infinitely better Desqview was better at multitasking until Windows 3.1, and it had market share until then. When Windows 3.1 was released, usage of DOS-only multitasking environments dropped to almost zero because Windows 3.1 was better. It was compatible and stable as compared to other DOS multitasking environments. Desqview was incapable of handling multiple communications programs with any degree of reliability whatsoever unless they were specially tailored to it. It also crashed much more often than Win 3.1. Windows being made to not work with the other (better) DOS versions, ie, PC-DOS, DR-DOS Windows worked fine with PC-DOS until it was integrated with the OS in Win95. No need to spout about the integration having no benefit. With Win95, even DOS mode programs got the benefit of 32 bit disk and network device drivers. DR-DOS never supported the full set of DOS APIs, and was not compatible with many DOS utilities. Hard to understand why you'd think it was better than DOS. I had it, but never used it. No reason. BTW, all of this happened before I worked for Microsoft. During that time, I had more reasons than you would believe to be sore about Microsoft's success, but at least I was willing to acknowledge the truth. Mike

To: JC Jaros who wrote (46729)	6/15/2000 3:38:00 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

--GEOworks was a better product. -- HEY MORON, GEOWORKS NEVER GAVE ANY 3RD-PARTY DEVs ANY APIs TO WORK WITH. andy