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from the Why-not-call-it-the-Open-Sea-Shell? dept.
GEOS is getting a fifth shot at life, as the 1990s DOS shell—despite the name, it is not an OS, in the strictest sense of the term—has been released as an open source project under the Apache 2.0 license by new owner blueway.Softworks.
Releasing PC/GEOS as open source came with significant hurdles, considering how often the platform changed hands. “After Frank S. Fischer, the former owner and long time GEOS enthusiast passed away, I worked with Breadbox's former CTO John Howard and Frank’s wife, as the new owner, to acquire the rights to give PC/GEOS a future and a new home,” Falk Rehwagen, former Breadbox employee and owner of new rights holder blueway.Softworks, told TechRepublic. “There always was the vision to make the technology available to the community to enable further developments, make it a living and developable system.”
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-pcgeos-found-a-5th-life-as-an-open-source-dos-shell/
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Friday March 15 2019, @11:10PM
I had an autoexec.bat and config.sys for 2-3 games, plus one for work (yeah, I worked from home fairly often in the 80s). The work one just made a big ramdisk, copied the source code from floppies to the ramdisk, and my makefile copied files back to the disk after a successful compilation.
I hate to think of how many hours I put into crafting each of those configurations. I wouldn't have the patience for it now.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.