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GUIs Sorted By Icons

Posted by timothy on from the cool-way-to-look-at-things dept.

Ant writes "Blue's News posted an interesting link that shows a chart of icons from various interfaces. Clicking on graphical user interface (GUI) names, section names, or icons themselves will lead to the appropriate page with more details."

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  1. SGI 4dwm? by orangesquid · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Where's SGI? 4dwm always had some neat icons and other GUI elements.

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  2. Woohoo! Someone mentioned GEOS!! by jbarr · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Oh, the memories from my college days...

    ...Booting up GEOS on a Commodore 64 and controlling things with a joystick...

    ...Downloading a 70 page programming manual off of Quantum Link at 300 baud...

    ...Printing out the document on a Star Gemini 10X dot-matrix printer...

    ...Being active on dial-up BBS's...

    My, how times have changed!

    GEOS was an amazing system, and the port to 8088 machines was most welcome. It ran on my Casio Zoomer PDA (pre-Palm days), and on my old Hyundai XT computer. Being overshadowed by Microsoft Windows, it's too bad Geoworks never really did anything with it.

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  3. NeXT icons by stevedekorte · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Many of the NeXTstep icons appear to be incorrect. Perhaps they were taken from GNUstep instead?

  4. Windows was that ugly for a reason... by bergeron76 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There's actually a good reason that Windows 1.0 and Windows 2.03 were so ugly on a color monitor. It's because back then, most displays were Hercules Monochrome or CGA. They displayed "shades" of amber or green, and that color scheme actually looks decent on those monitors.

    I have Windows 2.0 on 5.25" Floppy's, somewhere. I should probably resurrect them, and put them on VMWare or something for archival purposes.

    I may have to use an 8088 emulator or something similar to get it to run right. VMware might be overkill.

    I don't think I'll be able to resurrect that old Hercules Monitor (or the IBM XT) though. Man, I miss those days - XTree Pro, TheDraw, etc. Ascii used to be "cool"!

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