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#FreeGEOS source codes. The offical home of the PC/GEOS operating system technology. For personal computing fans. For all developers and assembly lovers. For YOU!

13 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 11 comments · first 2018-12-04 · latest 2026-08-09

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  1. Well there was GeoWorks (which AOL used the GUI of to their advantage): https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos
    comment by WillAdams · 2026-08-09 · in Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
  2. FWIW, still around and now FOSS. https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos
    comment by lproven · 2026-06-09 · in Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs
  3. Which is FOSS now! https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos
    comment by lproven · 2026-05-12 · in Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes
  4. …show that a full GUI OS written largely in assembly can live comfortably within just a few MiB: https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos At this point, re-targeting the stack to RISC-V is mostly an engineering effort rather than a research…
    comment by erwan577 · 2026-02-16 · in LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
  5. PC GEOS is now Apache 2 FOSS. https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos
    comment by lproven · 2024-08-28 · in GeoWorks: The Other Windows (2019)
  6. Maybe a good fit with the recent opensourcing of Geoworks Ensemble? https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos
    comment by WillAdams · 2024-06-25 · in Psion: The Last Computer
  7. …it by PC vendors untenable. For other folks who remember it fondly, it's been opensourced: https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos
    comment by WillAdams · 2024-04-24 · in Fifty years of the personal computer operating system
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    PC GEOS: the multitasking DOS-based GUI OS that evolved from a C64 desktop
    story by lproven · 2023-12-10 · 58 comments
  9. Now FOSS: https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos
    comment by lproven · 2022-10-07 · in QNX DEMO disk (1999)
  10. All of the PC/GEOS source code... https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos
    comment by MeyerK · 2022-09-10 · in Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?
  11. …is actively maintained[2]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(16-bit_operating_syste... [2] https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos
    comment by watchdogtimer · 2022-08-20 · in OpenGEM: Non-multitasking 16-bit graphical user interface (GUI) for DOS
  12. …that added object-oriented features to C (similar to Objective C or early C++). Example: https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos/blob/master/Appl/GPCMail...
    comment by mseepgood · 2021-12-02 · in GeoWorks: The Other “Windows”
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    PC/GEOS
    story by beefhash · 2018-12-04 · 76 comments