>But the best part of GeoWorks was the fact that it worked well without really strong hardware. Windows 3.1 really needed a 486 to shine, but GeoWorks could effectively run on a 286 or 386 without any problem.
My first install of Slackware 30 years ago was on 386DX33 with 2M RAM. The X felt fast and responsive, especially compare to the Windows. The only thing i saw missing then in Linux preventing me from pushing it to our customers is that typical business software of the day didn't work on it. Well, several years later, like Oracle release in 98, the things changed, and that seems to have sealed the fate of the high-tech world for the foreseeable future.
PC/GEOS v1.0 ran on an original IBM PC with 640K. The minimum for v1.2 was 1MB of RAM.
In terms of responsiveness, it was an interesting compare and contrast from the Sun workstations vs. the PCs running GEOS. Less mouse jitter is one memory (especially in comparison to those old Ultrix machines).
My first install of Slackware 30 years ago was on 386DX33 with 2M RAM. The X felt fast and responsive, especially compare to the Windows. The only thing i saw missing then in Linux preventing me from pushing it to our customers is that typical business software of the day didn't work on it. Well, several years later, like Oracle release in 98, the things changed, and that seems to have sealed the fate of the high-tech world for the foreseeable future.