It is interesting how different perception was 20 years ago. My cousin had a Sinclair PC200 back then, that IIRC was Amstrad's poor attempt to get in to the PC

It is interesting how different perception was 20 years ago. My cousin had a Sinclair PC200 back then, that IIRC was Amstrad's poor attempt to get in to the PC market. That was a 8086 based PC with CGA card, and it came with DOS 3-something and GEOS (don't remember the version). My cousin had a mouse and all, quite uncommon back then, and we tried and experimented with GEOS quite a lot, but we couldn't see the point really. Perhaps was a limitation of the monitor and/or the CGA card (it didn't look to good in the high resolution mode of the CGA, with a very poor refresh rate) or the limitations of the 740 KB floppies, but the CLI that DOS provided was definitely better!