Whats the difference between Geos, Geoworks, and the desktop versions?
Geoworks is the name of the company that created the Geos operating system. The company was formerly called Berkeley Softworks, then GeoWorks until 1994 with the name style change. It was a public company, and Novell, Hewlett Packard, Nokia, Ericsson, Toshiba and Amazon.com made equity investments in it. It moved away from the desktop and refocused on wireless communications and services. In April 2003 the corporate structure was sold to a company in Dallas, Texas. The http://www.geoworks.com website is under construction as of this writing, so we will have to wait for its relaunch. GlobalPC was purchased by Compu-DAWN, which provided Internet and telecommunications services in North America. (Compu-DAWN has since renamed itself MyTurn.com. It has now closed down.) Geos doesn’t stand for anything legally since you can’t trademark an acronym, but in earlier times it was said to be an acronym for “Graphical Environment Operating System.” Packaged with each different desktop version is a
Geoworks is the name of the company that created the Geos operating system. The company was formerly called Berkeley Softworks, and until recently spelled its name GeoWorks. Geoworks is a public company, and Novell, Hewlett Packard, Nokia, Ericsson, and Toshiba have made equity investments in it. Geos doesn’t stand for anything legally since you can’t trademark an acronym, but in earlier times it was said to be an acronym for “Graphical Environment Operating System.” Packaged with each different desktop version is a suite of programs that were developed by Geoworks to run under the Geos operating system, and has changed names almost every time a new version has been released. The more notable names have been Ensemble (v1.0 – v1.2), GeoWorks Pro (v1.2.8), Quick Start (v1.2.9), Ensemble (v2.0 – v2.0.1), NewDeal Office (v2.5+). Quick Start is basically the same as GeoWorks Pro without the Pro (no Quattro Pro bundled with it). Many folks run Quick Start on their XT and AT compatible machin
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