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A Multitasking GUI, Circa 1982

Posted by timothy on from the how-far-we've-come-or-not dept.

autospa points out a post (with video) showing off the multi-tasking abilities of the Blit terminal, developed in 1982 by Rob Pike and Bart Locanthi. Before Windows, before X, and before the Mac (but somewhat later than the Xerox Alto), the Blit terminal provided a multitasking, mouse-driven graphical interface; it took a Unix server on the other side to do the heavy lifting, though.

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  1. Yeah, but... by supersocialist · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does it run linux?

  2. In Soviet Russia... by blargster · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... Linux runs it!

  3. Re:only a few years after, it came to home PCs by nurb432 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Atari did it first and better. So take that!

    ( Ah the good old days of Amiga/Atari wars, hot on the heels of the 8-bit battles.. but in the end, we all lost )

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  4. Blit.app? by bennomatic · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only I could run that on my iPad, I'd be able to multitask on it, too!

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