[BC] An Entertaining Trip Back Through GUIs

[Jeff Johnson]

Thank you Alan! This is fascinating.

I recall a meeting when the Amiga 1000 with Workbench 1.0 was demonstrated. 
It was a revelation compared to DOS. Just think, the BIOS - Kickstart - was 
on one floppy while Workbench, the OS - AmigaDOS - was on another. There 
were 4k colors (the site has this wrong), fast graphics )Amiga was 
developed by gamers for gamers) and - most significantly - preemptive 
multitasking.

A fun collection of screen savers I had at one time was of fake crash 
screens. One of them was the Amiga 'Guru Meditation'.

The site with GUI examples demonstrates, as much as anything, marketing 
prowess or lack thereof. Xerox did not run with the PARC developments. 
Commodore was milked by greedy wingtip$ at this time when they had the most 
advanced PC technology in boxes in their warehouse. Apple has succeeded on 
the best design - then and now.

Jeff.Johnson at rfproof.com

>28 years of GUIs. Where were *you* when you first clicked a mouse to one 
>of these babies?
>
>http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/03/operating-system-interface-design-between-1981-2009/
>
>Alan Peterson KJ4IVD
>Radio America Network
>Arlington VA