There is a `man` entry displayed in a terminal window there. The first Unix I've ever touched was HP-UX on an HP-9000 (server series, not the workstation one), and I have this memory that the underlined words you can see in that manpage as well were actually hyperlinks you can select and would bring you to the relevant section of the manpage that discussed that term. Am I fabricating that memory or is it real? I cannot find any info about it on the Internet.
aa-jv 5 minutes ago [-]
My 'first Unix' was MIPS Risc/OS, and it had that feature too.
yread 24 minutes ago [-]
I thought only `info` had hyperlinks
pedrogpimenta 20 minutes ago [-]
This is like porn for me :)
It's one of my favourite things, looking at and analyzing older interfaces. Some are lovely, some are cute, some are ugly, but most are... "naïve"? I love to think about the effort, the research, the trials and tribulations. I feel I will spend a great deal of time in this page!
Where did the author get a copy of pre-X-integration NeWS, I wonder (if indeed they did). I haven’t been able to locate one online after a lot of determined searching, but I also can’t bring myself to declare that there isn’t one because the name is so ungoogleable.
inatreecrown2 21 minutes ago [-]
What a wonderful resource!
HP VUE has interesting color choices and a nice "Dock"
It's funny how early some things do and don't look familiar. A decent chunk of unix-family OSs have changed some since then, but also kinda not. CDE 1.0 looks almost exactly like the latest version:)
andsoitis 2 hours ago [-]
Year of release for each would be extra awesome.
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bsdooby 1 hours ago [-]
Even the site with its NeXTStep style (love it).
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Terr_ 1 hours ago [-]
> DECWindows
> /tmp/med_16.sixel
... Is that Sinfest? From before the author went weird? If so, then that's certainly a very different way of feeling old than I expected when clicking the link.
grebc 2 hours ago [-]
Amazing resource!
barrenko 1 hours ago [-]
"We have learned nothing in 10,000 years."
grebc 57 minutes ago [-]
Probably more accurately 40-45 years.
WalterGR 58 minutes ago [-]
I don’t see any pie menus, so I’m leaning towards agreement...
mananaysiempre 46 minutes ago [-]
Patents are very good at stifling progress and learning, even bogus ones.
vladsiu 36 minutes ago [-]
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Rendered at 08:10:08 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
At first glance it looks like this is much more breadth over depth. Quite an array of systems here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Softworks
There is a `man` entry displayed in a terminal window there. The first Unix I've ever touched was HP-UX on an HP-9000 (server series, not the workstation one), and I have this memory that the underlined words you can see in that manpage as well were actually hyperlinks you can select and would bring you to the relevant section of the manpage that discussed that term. Am I fabricating that memory or is it real? I cannot find any info about it on the Internet.
It's one of my favourite things, looking at and analyzing older interfaces. Some are lovely, some are cute, some are ugly, but most are... "naïve"? I love to think about the effort, the research, the trials and tribulations. I feel I will spend a great deal of time in this page!
Historical workstation desktop interface screenshots - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36191713 - June 2023 (55 comments)
Retrotechnology – PC desktop screenshots from 1983-2005 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15968745 - Dec 2017 (58 comments)
> /tmp/med_16.sixel
... Is that Sinfest? From before the author went weird? If so, then that's certainly a very different way of feeling old than I expected when clicking the link.