findsecrets.blogspot.com — A great time line in pictures showing the evolution of Operating Systems and their graphics. The first commercial OS GUI was in 1983 by Apple. Unix and Windows joined later. Some great screen shots that are a joy to view over and over again. KDE joined later in 1998 and Gnome in 1999. The two are developing fast, particularly KDE.
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lunarworksNov 27, 2006
Kyderdog: Yes it is... Apple Owns NeXTStep so it is NOW a Apple OS...Note that I said "was", not "is", and that he marked the screenshot with a date implying *historical* information.
raindogmxNov 27, 2006
I'm not a Mac fanboy but I can see in the screenshots that Mac always seems to be ahead of everyone.
diggphile82Nov 27, 2006
not again. Have we not seen enough of these 'memory lane' tributes? marked: tired
delmonteNov 28, 2006
" Apple didn't have color icons until System 6."Wrong, and misleading. Apple didn't have color icons IN THE FINDER until System 7... (but you could colorize Finder icons using the label menu on color Macs on pre-System 7, and the 32-Quickdraw icon was in 256 color in the Finder, thanks to a hack/easter-egg) But despite not having color icons in the Finder until System 7, there was color icons in applications outside the Finder since the 1987 Mac II system release, these were possible and used for example by system dialog boxes.
delmonteNov 28, 2006
"the GUI Apple ripped off"Whatever... same old drivel... read some computer history... While Apple was heavily inspired by Xerox, and actually paid them for what they saw, both Apple and Xerox pioneered many GUI ideas concurently, and many people working on the Mac (Raskin, Atkinson) were pioneers in GUI work and made thesis about it years before Xerox even thought about making a GUI OS. Menu Bars, and scroll-bars as we know them today, as well as drag-and-drop manipulation of files using a desktop metaphor were Apple-firsts, even Xerox adopted some of these in later versions of their OS. As they say, there was a lot of "cross-polenization" from both sides.On the other hand, Microsoft first created Windows as a way to port their GUI versions of Word, Excel etc. to x86 (that were first created and released on Macs), using their privileged access to the development versions of the Mac to literally reverse-engineering the inner-workings of the Mac APIs so that ports of Word and Excel were easier to pull off.
delmonteNov 28, 2006
Even if it was actually "Mac OS X Server 1.0", it's misleading to label this as simply "Mac OS X" since Aqua was already announced at that point.
nofxjunkeeNov 28, 2006
unix, linux, xen, ruby, python, ruby on rails, perl, subversion, many multi-protocol IM clients. these have all made differences, in the last 5 years or not.i love seeing next in 1988 beside win 3.11 from 1993. hilarious that next wasn't more popular.
rhesuspieces00Nov 28, 2006
@ibisIf you actually read the discussion, you would notice the quote was:"I'm trying to think of truly ground breaking developments from the past 5 years that originated with the OSS community. BitTorrent stands out in my mind, which was mostly the work of one semi-autistic prodigy. I can't think of much else."pwned yourself.