Comment by jamesgill
5 days ago
PageMaker was enormously popular in the 80s/90s. It was everywhere. I remember writing two different sets of computer manuals with it.
I also used GeoPublish, because Commodore! It was fantastic on the C64.
5 days ago
PageMaker was enormously popular in the 80s/90s. It was everywhere. I remember writing two different sets of computer manuals with it.
I also used GeoPublish, because Commodore! It was fantastic on the C64.
GeoPublish was part of GEOS which is an also-ran OS from early days of graphical computing. I personally used it for home compute as a kid; coming from a Kaypro it was pretty wild.
Former CEO of GeoWorks claims that GEOS faded away "because Microsoft threatened to withdraw supply of MS-DOS to hardware manufacturers who bundled Geoworks with their machines".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(16-bit_operating_system)
> because Microsoft threatened to withdraw supply of MS-DOS
That was a very Microsoft thing to do. They are much nicer nowadays, but back then and when they tried everything to delay FLOSS adoption (with friends we joked they’d eventually kidnap us), they gave me a lot of trouble.
Yes, for a while we used it for our university reports, much better than fighting layouts with Word, and we weren't LaTeX fans.
I only had a single professor where doing reports with LaTeX was a thing.