Mail Archives: opendos/2000/10/27/08:51:04
GEOS (like any TCP/IP compliant software ?) can be connected to any PPP
provider. You just need to know the phone #, DNS, etc. to connect. Of
course, if further (or prealable) Windows-based software login is
required, GEOS will not be able to connect. Usually, if you can connect
with Arachne, Linux or any DOS TPC/IP stack, you can connect with GEOS.
IMO, I suggest that you should prefer New Deal Office (3.2a) instead of
Web Suite (it is more complete).
To add to this story, Geos was designed with some views on DR-DOS.
That's why it uses the Task Switcher. It also uses the clipboard of
DR-DOS 6. NDO runs on 8086 processors (yes, 8086) and up (ok, preferably
a 386-16 if you want it to fly ;-) in CGA up to 1280x1024 (all VESA
compliant modes).
Now the desktop Geos has become New Deal Office, Web Suite, diverses
Brother and Canon machines, a Nokia Communicator GSM phone (9000/9110)
and finally the "GlobalPC" (http://www.globalpc.com).
Philippe.
Robert W Moss wrote:
>
> There is also a Websuite 3.2a package for $49.99 (US I assume)
> This includes Skipper Pro Web Browser, New Mail, Web Editor, Web Chat,
> and New Desk. This comes as a single user version for a 80286 oe better
> PC.
>
> New Deal Claims their packages are operating systems but still informs
> you that you will need some version of DOS/OS2/Windows9x to boot the
> computer. In Win9x you can run the programs in a DOS Window, but you
> would have to edit the PIF in the properties box to ensure windows
> doesn't crash. You are also supposed to be able to run on a linux
> system.
>
> I am not aware of any free ISP's for DOS based systems (Such as the dozen
> or so like FreeINet and NetZero) although the last time I ran Version 3
> Beta their was still an AOL (UGH!!) ICON. This has been part of the
> system since GEOS v1.0, before MSIE became the AOL Browser by contract.
> AOL refused to update the interface after GEOS v2.0 came along, so when
> we called in from GEOS v1.2 we got updated to the v2.0 interfaceby AOL.
> That was back in 1995, when I bought a copy of GEOSworks Pro at a
> computer show and tried to register it and found out GEOS was not
> supporting the old versions anymore. That was about the same time New
> Deal Licensed GEOS and GeoWorks went off into embedded systems and palm
> devices like the UPS Delivery Pad Palm device. They even Licensed a few
> companies like Brother , which put GEOS v2.0 in a rom chip on a portable
> laptop/printer unit which sold for about $299US and came with a built-in
> modem and printer, but no sound card, and used a LCD screen display.
> There was also a color LCD screen version for $500US but both models
> disappeared after about 2 years. They didn't have much memory and
> problably used a 80286 processor or a Japanese equivilent but I was never
> able to find out the specs from any of the documentation I read.
>
> Anyway, it works good and you can play any of your DOS games in a MSDOS
> window or just start up in DOS and only use NDO when you want to have a
> GUI. Unlike Windoze, if there is a problem and it crashes, all you have
> to do is restart and it politely tells you that there was a problem the
> last time you ran it and asks if you want to reset the system. When you
> click yes it resets the system for you and you can go on your merry way.
>
> It is not a memory hog and can run with 640k of ram and a 20Meg HD,
> including all of the office modules, and the 3.3/or higher DOS system,
> with room to spare for any DOS apps you need. Version 2.0 runs on a
> 808x system with DOS 3.1. There are still a lot of the old packages out
> there. I just bought a Quick Start package ( I think this is v1.5),
> including a Video, for $15US at a cheap/old computer store in Vacaville ,
> California. It's good stuff for the grandkids.
>
> "If you use your system in a dirty environment, open it periodically and
> vacuum the boards and components with a small vacuum designed for this
> kind of work. Don't loosen anything in the process -- sucking all the
> chips off the system board with an industrial strength wet/dry vac is not
> covered by your warranty!" ( ;-)
>
> When you are installing software, be sure you have an 'any key' on the
> keyboard. ( <--| ) .
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