Re: End of support Windows Playstation

Jolyon Smith wrote:

I seem to recall that at that time $1500 was the going rate for an SDK
(the "going rate" being set by Microsoft, natch).

AFAIK, MS *never* charged for the SDK per se, it was included in the price
of a development tool (hence why I could program against Windows with TPW
for just $130).

I honestly don't remember too much more about GeoWorks, other than
that it was pre-emptively multi-tasking, was able to host Windows in a
session that was somehow more stable than running Windows "naked" (as
I typed that a vague memory surfaced that this was because it could
only host Windows in real mode, but I could be wrong on that), and
came on far fewer disks than Windows at the time!

Geoworks' claim to fame was that it ran circles around Windows in
performance. It was supposedly written in pure assembler. I wasn't aware it
could host Windows, but that's entirely possible since 16 bit Windows was
really still a shell around DOS.

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