Discussions between Merrill Ward Associates, the designers of the new GEO desktop operating system for the XE/XL, are continuing. Both Atari and Merrill Ward hope that GEO will become the accepted new standard operating system of the XE/XL computer. GEO does for the XE/XL what GEOS did for the Commodore 64, giving an 8-bit microcomputer an operating system similar to the GEM system on the 16-bit ST computer.
    Although no agreement has been reached, Atari hopes to distribute GEO to the XE/XL community. An upgrade path is being considered for existing owners.

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