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- mintshows, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25See http://toastytech.com/guis/ for a MUCH more in-depth look at many other OS's (from Xerox, BeOS, Windows, Linux, Mac, etc...)
- judgeFire, on 10/12/2007, -6/+29No SGI, or X, or even Amiga?
Not all that extensive. SGI had vector icons with a resize widget in 1994 or so... - graystar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21No Xerox?
- beforeIforget, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21The person who wrote this only remembers (or knows) the history of the companies that only won out in the end, i.e. that still exisit today. The landscape of the moderm desktop is riddled with the carcasses of long dead and forgotten operating systems.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Yeah, I do remember the Apple II times and how cool it was to have a GUI.
- TheFoppishRhino, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16I'm 18, and the first technology my dad ever bought was a set of primitive writing utensils we fashioned by rubbing quartz against smaller rocks. We would grunt and groan in our primitive tongues as we performed long division on a slab.
Then we would slaughter a goat and eat it. - simd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15It's interesting, though, that the last radical change to the Windows interface was with Windows 95 and the move away from Program Manager and File Manager. Sure, 98 / 2000 / XP and Vista have changed visually, but the basic way of working has remained.
- RootDaddy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15What, no Windows ME?
- jessecurry, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19I had forgotten how far ahead of its time KDE was, I'd say that KDE 1.0 still looks like it could be a current OS.
- ksgant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Then if he's only doing the ones that survived, where's Gnome? Isn't the default desktop for Ubuntu a Gnome environment? And Openstep/NeXTStep is still going too.
But anyway, I was an Amiga user back in 87 and was bad mouthing the Mac on how it wasn't even in color. Though they were "sisters" in that they were both based on the Motorola 68000 processor along with the Atari ST. I remember going into the old Federated stores in Southern California and they had the Amiga and the ST sitting side by side and the Amiga was blowing it away....then I headed into this upscale computer store to see the Mac and I wasn't impressed with it's tiny B&W screen. I thought for sure the Amiga was going to set the world on fire and be the next big thing....I'm still waiting. - PooPsnooP, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11It's crazy to think that, in about 10 years, our desktops today will look so freakin' primitive.
- KMartSheriff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I know I can't believe they didn't acknowledge Windows ME and it's glorious time on Earth that lasted all of 10 minutes..
- warpozio, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Where is the OS/2 WPS?
- Ikioi, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13Was actually kinda wondering that. Before the picture of Vista should be an animated picture of Gnome with the desktop cube slowly spinning using XGL. Got mine working perfectly with a simple upgrade on an older computer with a simple $50 PCI (not express) video card upgrade from Walmart (NVIDIA Geforce4 MX 4000).
Vista isn't even released, and XGL is available now with Novell Suse 10.1. Ask anyone running XGL; 3D is definately the next evolutionary step, and it's here now. - jodamiller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I'm pretty sure that the "Macintosh System 5" screenshot is actually an Apple II GS 5.0.4 screenshot.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I was a windows 2.0 user and it was sorta handy at the time, though u were better off with a customized automenu (loved that app).
Ive also had the pleasure of watching kde grow up from 0.9 to current. 2.0 and 3.0 have been huge leaps. shame there is no snaps of gnome, Im not a fan myself but it still is relevant. - motang, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10This is pretty neat, to see how far the industry has come. Simply amazing.
- thatgirlismine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Actually, in 10.2, the OS was riddled with fairly high contrast horizontal stripes on nearly every user interface element. Additionally, there was a lot more translucency in things like menus and unhighlighted windows, which made them hard to read.
By 10.4, Apple has phased most of that stuff out in favor of simple white, and reduced use of translucency. This is in contrast to Vista's Aero, which goes overboard on translucency and effects, repeating Apple's early mistakes with a graphics accelerated system UI. - grilkip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Amiga seriously belongs in that list.
- lukee, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11That Mac System 5 shot is actually an Apple IIGS shot, and the System 6 shot is from an early edition of 7. Also, no 10.2, 10.3, or 10.4 shots. Geeeeeeeez.
- motang, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@iamcitizen I was wondering the same thing the dude didn't include Gnome, or Xfce. Matter of fact there is no mention of CDE either (none that I have seen).
- Schrade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Far, far better link: http://toastytech.com/guis/guitimeline.html
You can't do a history of GUIs without mentioning AmigaOS. - BlindIrishman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5A Command line isn't desktop environment.
- vecna, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8here is the link posted as a reply by zubernerd on slashdot
I think like him it's much better
http://toastytech.com/guis/guitimeline.html - daball99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6GEM Desktop, GEOS, GeoWorks, OS/2 Warp, not mentioned? Pretty narrow view of GUIs
- edzieba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5No AmiOS? Workbench was full-colour and high-resolution in 1985.
- samdu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6They also forgot MS Bob. :)
- S1mba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Bah.
They forgot about GEOS, which ran on the Apple II and the Commodore 64. (And probably other systems as well). - saqibnk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I may only be 18 but i still remember the day my dad bought our first computer. It was a Packard Bell running Windows 3.1
- xst4t1kx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Incredibly lame page. Many desktops left out. Thanks for multiple microsoft boot screens (a.k.a not your desktop)
- mbrane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm glad to see someone else remembers Geoworks - much nicer look and feel than the Windows of the time, multitasking on an XT, longer filenames....All in all very nice, and it was a shame to see it fall by the wayside.
- colincornaby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6The article is wrong. The System 5 screenshot is actually a screenshot of an Apple II. The System 6 screenshot is actually System 7. It's like the guy did no research and just threw a bunch of screenshots together. I know I might sound nit-picky, but it's really easy to tell them apart given that say.... System 6 didn't include support for running multiple programs out of the box without the Multifinder add on... and his System 7 screenshot is definitely not System 6 with Multifinder.
- samdu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6For what it's worth, the Amiga isn't technically dead. It's still in production, still supported and the OS is still being developed. Realistically it's dead, but not technically. It's a shame that the contributions that the Amiga brought to the desktop computer space are so often overlooked.
http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/
http://www.eyetech.co.uk/search.php?SearchStr=&SearchCat=AMA1 - dshPls, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Im 18....and I had a Apple 2 E, atleast I believe that was the name.
Then we got our 200mHz p1 with windows 95, and the technology leap was amazing! - BlindIrishman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5KDE 4.0?
- Cronus6, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Even though you are getting -dugg for mentioning the OS that SHOULD have won out on the PC side of things... sadly IBM tried to use the same marketing scheme currently employed by Apple.
OS/2 has been sold off by IBM and a new version is availble from: http://www.ecomstation.com/ - jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6wow, did this guy deliberately make the kde shots look like crap?
my kde desktop looks sweeter than OSX and XP/Vista
and, im no fan of gnome, but thats kind of missing... oh, and, so many others that I can't count - tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -2/+510.2-4 look pretty similar (though .4 did introduce Platinum - but the screenshots are so tiny you can't tell anyway). Mind you, .5 looks the same too.
- letterten, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i really don't think the 1987 image is a mac os. it's either an amiga or commodore's GEOS UI. i know it shows an apple in the upper left, but it's just not right.
- motang, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7@simd And looks like Vista is going to remain in the same way.
- wjbecker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I still have a boxed set of GEOS for the Commodore 64 on my bookshelf, looking for a Commodore machine to run it on. I also have an Amiga 500 with 2mb of ram and a side car harddrive. I am presently typing this on my Thinkpad laptop with KDE 3.5
- surfit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There should at least have been several screenshots of Amiga OS, they were way ahead of their time and made major advances with each revision.
Even these days, you don't have bog standard features like proper moduler data typing which was the standard in Amiga OS 3.1. For example, imagine being able to run a random application X and making it save/load in whatever file format *you* decide to download from the internet. So you could download a PNG data type and immediately all appropriate software would support PNG.
And like mentioned above, Amiga OS is still in development. - transistor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3kinda lame article as the article has a very narrow focus. there are other of these nostalgic pages traversing through time looking at the stuff the author remembers. the problem is that the author usually does not do a very thorough job. take this as an example.
- yathosho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3where's my Workbench?
- V1ncent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Anyone remember GEOS for the C64 and 128? Or the Amiga GUI? :)
- BTime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Amiga multi-tasking. More than one opportunity for the system to crash. But they were leaps and bounds ahead of IBM/Apple at the time.
- rsilva, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You can see several Amiga Workbench pics here:
http://www.gregdonner.org/workbench/ - genericwhiteguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3What about GEM? I used that for a while.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager - Gurubanks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I noticed how little work has been done from 2002-2006 in relation to the other time periods. That's a shame.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+13KDE!? Psh. What about Gnome?
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