Ramin Honary on Nostr: nprofile1q…94qfx has just written this awesome and very detailed article on Windows ...
nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqqn8gyfx0vsmaudkmlr37fhrrqj6mwyjh7f8z73gmx8akylu4lrrsm94qfx (nprofile…4qfx) has just written this awesome and very detailed article on Windows v2, that is the version of Microsoft Windows that was originally released in 1987. It contains everything she learned about the inner workings of the graphical shell, and actually running the original software and experimenting with it. Essential reading for #RetroComputing enthusiasts, although it might take you a good 30 minutes or more to read it all.
If you like it, let her know on the original post: https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/113749698753812898
For those who don’t know, GUIs back then were still very new to the consumer PC market, having only recently been introduced the Apple Lisa in 1983 and Macintosh in 1984, and were not considered essential by most people. The publishing industry did see value in the “What You See is What You Get” document editing model provided by GUIs, but apart from them, most people were fine as long as they could do word processing (usually with WordPerfect), and spreadsheets (usually with Lotus 123), none of which required a GUI to work. GUI software like Microsoft Windows for the “IBM-compatible” PC platform, and Microsoft Workbench for the Commodore Amiga platform, were not operating systems, they were shells, and mostly seen as a novelty, until Windows v3 came out which genuinely made the PC platform easier to use.
Still, what Microsoft Windows (and Workbench) made possible was pretty impressive for the time. Although personally I still believe Apple had the better GUI product.
#tech #software #RetroComputing
If you like it, let her know on the original post: https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/113749698753812898
For those who don’t know, GUIs back then were still very new to the consumer PC market, having only recently been introduced the Apple Lisa in 1983 and Macintosh in 1984, and were not considered essential by most people. The publishing industry did see value in the “What You See is What You Get” document editing model provided by GUIs, but apart from them, most people were fine as long as they could do word processing (usually with WordPerfect), and spreadsheets (usually with Lotus 123), none of which required a GUI to work. GUI software like Microsoft Windows for the “IBM-compatible” PC platform, and Microsoft Workbench for the Commodore Amiga platform, were not operating systems, they were shells, and mostly seen as a novelty, until Windows v3 came out which genuinely made the PC platform easier to use.
Still, what Microsoft Windows (and Workbench) made possible was pretty impressive for the time. Although personally I still believe Apple had the better GUI product.
#tech #software #RetroComputing