I remember running Geoworks on my 8086 panasonic desktop (as souped up an 8086 as their can be, vga card, 40MB hard disk (then doublespaced!). I remember it coming with the Pre-AOL AOL client.
With that said, all the apps I had for it were the ones that came with it, so in a sense it was just a glorified version of micrsoft works + some games. It was cute and in a way gave a longer life to the 8086 machine than it deserved having, but, they missed the microsoft concept of "developers, developers, developers"