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- PhillyMJS, on 04/19/2009, -10/+634Dugg for having everything on one page.
- JohanTheSwede, on 04/19/2009, -9/+504"NeXTSTEP / OPENSTEP 1.0 (released in 1989)" - Way ahead of it's time.. In comparison to all the other OS at that time. Awesome digg!
- ChristoFox, on 04/19/2009, -9/+296What is this....a list?....on one page? :O
- SweetChinMusic, on 04/19/2009, -4/+210Windows 1 and 2 hurt my eyes.
- sybersnake, on 04/19/2009, -13/+181The dude skipped OSX 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, Windows ME, Windows 2000.
- Xiata, on 04/19/2009, -5/+130Anyone notice that the Windows 1.0 taskbar looks vaguely like the Windows 7 Taskbar?
I can't wait till we get a clipboard application again! - Psygnosis, on 04/19/2009, -17/+141Unix/Linux 1978:
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Unix/Linux 2009:
$ - DLit, on 04/19/2009, -2/+112This reminds me of the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley
- coheedcollapse, on 04/19/2009, -0/+102It's weird to see that stuff in the past and remember how cutting edge I thought it was at the time. It's difficult to imagine what Operating Systems will look like ten years further in the future if we've come this far already.
- lololol1, on 04/19/2009, -4/+90Dugg for Paintbrush
- buddamus, on 04/19/2009, -3/+74Windows 3.1 was my first OS, I still miss it a little
- falstaff, on 04/19/2009, -1/+69And every Mac OS from 2 - 6, as if Apple didn't do a damn thing for 6 years. The whole NT line of Windows is missing until XP.
You have to draw the line somewhere and just hit the major releases, but the development of the NT line was arguably much more important to today than the Windows 3.0 -> 3.1 and 95->98 updates which were included. - korvins, on 04/19/2009, -3/+60Looking back, it is nice to see that despite other times, today any of the three big OSs families for the desktop are just fine.
- stopbrorape, on 04/19/2009, -3/+58I was surprised when I saw NeXTSTEP / OPENSTEP 1.0. It looked way better than Windows 2.0.
- awhiteflame, on 04/19/2009, -6/+61Thank god.
I -wish- the Windows command line were still useful. - e2superman, on 04/19/2009, -4/+54Lol. Burried for you living in a world where the internet always existed!
- ZeroCubed, on 04/19/2009, -14/+62Funny, Apple got its ***** back together soon after Steve Jobs came back and reclaimed the company from the board of directors. But that can't possibly be related in any way.
- digitalpencil, on 04/19/2009, -1/+45by God!? they're ***** listening to us o_0
- DiscoUnderpants, on 04/19/2009, -0/+36I never used Window 1... hardly anyone did... but I did use 2 for a short time... trust me your eyes being hurt were the least of your problems
- Jambi, on 04/19/2009, -4/+39Other than a few psycho fanboys I've met, no one thinks that Apple invented the GUI. Hell, Xerox didn't even invent the GUI, it just put together a lot of pre-existing concepts, added a few of its own, and basically invented the predecessor to the modern PC. Apple then polished the UI somewhat to make it more palatable for mainstream use.
- lintmonkey, on 04/19/2009, -3/+38Anyone else wince in pain when they got to Windows 1.0?
- dopre, on 04/19/2009, -0/+34VisiCorp Visi On (released in 1984)
In the Word window: "Multiple apps are ruinning at the same time"
Spell check was waiting to be discovered... - whiteyMcBrown, on 04/19/2009, -5/+37You really should try using the two finger tap on mac laptops. With that and the two finger scroll, it's become next to impossible for me to use PC trackpads. Apple's current mouse is garbage, but it does have a right click. You also get used to the one menu bar to control all your applications. There's never any question as to where the menu bar is in OS X. There's another argument for it also: that there's only one program in the foreground at a time so having a separate menu bar for each application would be a waste of screen real-estate.
I do have some issues with OSX, of course. I'd love if windows were resizable from all sides (like in Windows). I also like the selectable address bar in Windows Explorer, so I can quickly send someone a link to where a file is on the network (for any collaborative work stuff). Also, I like to concentrate on one task at a time, so I really do wish I could get a full-screen button instead of just maximize. Hide Others is a pretty decent workaround. Overall though, Leopard is far and away my favourite OS. - Anand999, on 04/19/2009, -2/+29From a UI point of view, NT 3.x was a clone of Windows 3.1, NT 4.0 was a clone of Windows 95, and 2000 was basically the same UI as Windows 98. The UI is the whole point of this article, so why include revision of the OS that didn't bring anything new to the table UI-wise?
- falafelkiosken, on 04/19/2009, -3/+30and thanks to those OSes you can browse millions of web pages. respect the $ (and the #)
- stopbrorape, on 04/19/2009, -1/+26I think I had a seizure.
- ericdano, on 04/19/2009, -4/+27Where is Acorn's OS?
- SitPoMk, on 04/19/2009, -0/+22Webmaster and Webmaster's Advertiser
- inactive, on 04/19/2009, -3/+25Well...when your company is run by a sugar water maker...things are bound to be slower.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sculley - phpchris, on 04/19/2009, -0/+22When this was last on digg I think someone pointed out that the NeXTSTEP screenshot was a much later version than the one released in 1989, 1995~ I believe.
- Meltz014, on 04/20/2009, -1/+22It's cause everyone is just so embarrassed by Windows ME.
- e2superman, on 04/19/2009, -2/+22Lol. Don't be a dick. I am not talking about ARPAnet or other items. The first mainstream access / browser which includes aol/prodigy... was not until the 90s.
Hell, Mosaic was really the first browser of any usefulness and that was 1993. - Jambi, on 04/19/2009, -6/+26Apple didn't get its ***** back together for many years afterwards. It came out with some new products that really helped its income, (the iPod, for one thing), but the transition to OS X was awful, and the new OS wasn't really usable until version 10.3. Competent management isn't a miracle cure-all, you know.
- Joest23, on 04/19/2009, -2/+212 people dugg this person down? Who in their right mind WOULDN'T want everything to load on one page?
- inactive, on 04/19/2009, -1/+20Good artists copy, great artists steal.
- t0x2c, on 04/19/2009, -0/+18Here's one from an earlier version of nextstep
http://www.prepressure.com/library/prepress-histor ...
The one in the article is 3 something, around the mid 90s. - CLShortFuse, on 04/19/2009, -31/+49Apple's archaic menu system is the most reoccuring issue I have with OSX. It's so annoying to have to move the mouse all the way up to the top of the screen for every window to access the menu system. When running one fullscreen application, it's not a problem but have multiple windows open, it becomes unnecessary chore. Having to use a keyboard shortcuts means, I can't operate the OS with one hand.
That's my main problem with Apple. Stubbornness. They refuse to change or adapt. They stick with their philosophy even if it's not good. The whole one button mouse/trackpad is stubborn. I'm never getting a MacBook because of it. I have to use gestures? WTF? There's no reason why two buttons and gestures can't coexist. And no, this is 2009, I shouldn't have to be plugging in usb devices on a laptop to work normally. Also, having to hold down a button to click is retarded since it requires you to use two hands when every one else requires one (old iMac complaint).
It's the Apple's philosophy. Sometimes they invent great stuff. Sometimes, just for the sake of being different they have some weird/backwards schemes.
The main issue I have is that it's mandatory. They have a pretty messed up obsession too, "This is how we envision it should work and you have to do it as we like. Take it or leave it. My way or the highway."
tl;dr:
Archaic system menu, one button on trackpad/mouse/iphone, scrollwheel on ipod, late copy pasting on iphone, no multitaskings, locked iPhone apps, proprietary connections, shows Apple likes to invent new ways to do things but have a take it or leave it policy by not compromising for anybody that doesn't do things their way. They cater to their own egos rather than customers. - Jambi, on 04/19/2009, -7/+24No it wasn't. It was certainly the first version of Windows to really make it big in the mainstream, but when it comes to affordable home computing, that's been around since forever. Commodore with its C64 and Amiga brands was immensely popular long before Windows managed to release 3.1, and over in the UK, brands like Sinclair and later Acorn filled a similar niche.
- rockon4life45, on 04/19/2009, -39/+56It seemed like Windows constantly improved at the fastest rate and then OS X Leopard realized how behind it was and got it's ***** together.
- nenadsuperzmaj, on 04/19/2009, -0/+16Wow, really enjoyed that.
I remembered again how I miss Amiga :( Now I mostly use Gnome desktop with Linux, and I'm very happy with it, but I cannot help but wonder how great would it be if the dreaded 90's didn't happen to Amiga, and it kept developing and growing... Ah, happy days... - cplusplus, on 04/19/2009, -0/+16No more option to select "Reverse Polish" in the calculator ;(
- Raian, on 04/19/2009, -6/+21Apple paid Xerox in the form of stocks for access to the GUI-engineers with the understanding Apple would build a GUI based OS -- Xerox was really going nowhere with their computer.
Microsoft ripped off Apple-- Apple then decided to sue Microsoft... and Xerox thought they could get in on this game and make a few bucks by suing Apple for stealing their look and feel-- which was thrown out in court.
I think Apple and Microsoft settled (perhaps with some very interesting terms). - techdever, on 04/19/2009, -0/+15then what about KDE's 'taskbar' ?
- zakatov, on 04/20/2009, -4/+19I think you got that backwards. OSX had 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4 BEFORE Vista and 10.5 (Leopard) AFTER. Keep in mind these were full OS releases, not updates.
- ChiTownHero, on 04/19/2009, -1/+15Out to a protocol lunch date with Gopher.
- MattBD, on 04/19/2009, -2/+16KDE4 is pretty damn cool now. I'm hoping that Kubuntu Jaunty will see KDE4 finally at a level where I can use it as my main desktop.
Incidentally, BeOS looks pretty awesome. I've tinkered with Haiku and it's OK, but very hard to actually get anything done as yet, but I'd love for Haiku to reach maturity. - blorguehad, on 04/20/2009, -0/+13and files like video, audio, documents... they're all compatible.
- sjmulder, on 04/19/2009, -3/+16Nah, there was a lot of gradual improvement between OS X 10.0 and 10.6.
- nenadsuperzmaj, on 04/19/2009, -8/+20Windows hurt my bloody everything :p
- ethana2, on 04/19/2009, -0/+12Once Ubuntu 9.10 is out (kernel mode setting et al.), I'm going to move my grandma over to it from Mac OS 10.4.11 because of the built in free app store, sane window management, and categorized apps.
..but yes, with my bash aliases, I can do just about anything from the command line, and do it quickly, and that makes me very happy. -
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