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To: Dirk Dawson who wrote (15964)7/24/1998 5:20:00 PM
From: BillHoo  Respond to of 213177
 
<<NPR's Talk of the Nation Science Friday Topic is "Alternatives to Using Microsoft Windows.">>

Great! I'm going to chime in about the benefits of GEOS on a Commodore 64 pumped up with 32 Megs of RAM!

This was a GUI OS that ran on 128k. Back then RAM was expensive. Imagine hardwiring 32MB on a C64 today. (of course there would be mega-bank switching to make it work!)

-Bill_H