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A belated note, from a bubbled-up memory (all on an "IIRC" basis!) : Hard disk space was the killer, as much as anything. The average home PCs hard disk was 40
by crtified 2y ago
A belated note, from a bubbled-up memory (all on an "IIRC" basis!) :
Hard disk space was the killer, as much as anything. The average home PCs hard disk was 40-50MB in those days, and iirc a full Geoworks Ensemble install took almost half of it. And regardless of how one scrimped and made-do with what was left, it became an overwhelming disadvantage to have the whole system weighed down in that manner by such a heavy OS.
- crtified 2y agoI can't edit the above post now (thus the folly of hastily commenting on HN, perhaps), but after actually looking into it by doing a DOSBox-X install, it seems that the Geoworks Ensemble 2.0 install size is only <10MB. I suspect that my false memories of it taking more space were because, by 1993, DOS games and programs were requiring steadily more disk space (and there were more of them!). With Geoworks taking any sizeable portion our increasingly-meagre 40-52MB disks, we soon found ourselves desperately wanting those megabytes back to install this-or-that extra thing.