Feel the power of.. GEOS!

[recidivist]

 For real C= diehards,there is/were? accelerator cpu which at 20mhz make GEOS  a pleasure to use. Of course the SuperCPU cost a couple hundred dollars,and like many Amiga booster took over the computing but uses the C64/C128 for I/O and display.

 NO,you can't have mine! Got one of the first production units back when CMD introduced them. Click Here Software I think is the current builder/supplier.

  Brother Corporation also made and sold the GEOBook which was
pitched at those needing just those business and home management tasks GEOS was designed to do. The product was a little too expensive in comparison to general purpose laptops and a little too late.Introduced a couple years earlier it would probably be seen as the logical and more useful successor to the Radio Shack Model 100/200 mini-laptops.

 I wonder just how fast today's programs would run if they were written in machine code instead of C++ and Visual Basic ?

[recidivist]

 Now I know what a Wii is!

 And it looks to have great possibilities given that new peripherals   have a USB connection. Since I think even video addon now connect via USB 2.0 all the computing device needs is a processor and a USB translator with everything else on the USB buss:keyboard,mouse,magic wand,remote,video,storage...can the buss handle all that traffic?

 I can see this thing getting "personality" disc or cards to emulate darn near any of the older machines .

 The only thing I wonder about is it maintaing an internet coonnection even when "off";not sure I like that as it sounds kind of 1984ish.

[recidivist]

 There USED to be a nice IIGS website and the author was working on a web browser and some other goodies.But I brought it up one day to see a message that due to widespread pirating of his work and the apparent refusal of the IIGS users to send him a little shareware funding ,he just got fed up and deleted all his work to date including his development tools and tossed the books,so the ungrateful IIGS  users could go xxxxxxxxx!:madashell:

 That was really a shame.I think the IIGS had potential but like the C128 was a brief step/stop  from  the 6502 to the 68000. (yes, I have a stack of GSs).and a bunch of others.Picked up some pizza boz Macs last year for 50 cents each.Wonder how many million classic  pre Windows machines lie beneath grass clippings and disposable diapers?   :-?