From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Classic Unix workstation GUIs
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 07:25:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120821142512.GJ5016@bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1345556789.14658.33.camel@home.vonhagen.org>
Ug. I used them. Hated them. Best thing I ever did was port the
C compiler from the Apollos to Sun. Way faster.
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 09:46:29AM -0400, William von Hagen wrote:
> Though Apollos were much more Unix-like than actual Unix, the DM
> environment (display manager?) on Apollo Aegis, Domain/IX, and
> Domain/OS workstations was pretty interesting, most notably for the
> sophisticated interaction between the command-line and GUI. The DM was a
> lot like the Moxie carbonated beverage - you either liked it or you
> really wanted to spit it out. Apollo systems also ran various versions
> of the X Window system, but the unique stuff was in the DM.
>
> Site such as Toastytech's GUI Timeline
> (http://toastytech.com/guis/guitimeline.html) and Typewritten Software's
> Retrotechnology Media page (http://www.typewritten.org/Media/) have many
> screen shots of old GUIs and apps, many on Unix or Unix-like systems.
>
> Bill
>
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-21 13:46 William von Hagen
2012-08-21 14:25 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2012-08-21 17:54 ` ron
2012-08-21 17:56 ` Larry McVoy
2012-08-23 21:23 ` asbesto
2012-08-24 0:00 ` Michael Kerpan
2012-08-31 17:54 ` asbesto
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2012-08-28 13:17 Berny G
2012-08-20 2:40 Michael Kerpan
2012-08-20 2:53 ` Pat Barron
2012-08-20 3:28 ` Larry McVoy
2012-08-20 3:05 ` Larry McVoy
2012-09-11 6:58 ` Aaron J. Grier
2012-09-11 8:03 ` Tim Bradshaw
2012-09-11 8:41 ` Pierre DAVID
2012-09-11 12:12 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2012-09-11 12:40 ` Ronald Natalie
2012-09-11 12:55 ` Pierre DAVID
2012-09-11 19:30 ` Aaron J. Grier
2012-09-12 5:33 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2012-09-12 10:20 ` arnold
2012-09-12 11:13 ` Armando Stettner
2012-09-13 6:58 ` Tim Bradshaw
2012-09-13 10:22 ` Ronald Natalie
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