OS Interfaces

An interesting site here that has screenshots and information about a variety of operating system graphical user interfaces.  Macintosh versions from System 1 through OS X 10.3.  Windows from Windows 1.0 even through Longhorn.  BeOS, OS/2, and others are also there.

It’s neat to see the similarities and differences in the various versions and to see how they’ve all progressed over the years.

Posted Wednesday March 31, 2004 in Around the Internet by Chris Curtis

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Would you believe that I’ve ran most of these OS’s?  Here’s the rundown of what has been installed or used on my home machines, in roughly the order that I remember using them:

DOS 4.0
DOS 5.0
DOS 6.0
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.11
OS/2 Warp
Windows 95
Windows 98
Mac OS 8.x (6 mo. stint with Jacobs Engineering)
Solaris 7 (ditto)
BeOS
Mandrake Linux
Windows Me
Mac OS 9.x
Mac OS X
Mac Jaguar
Mac Panther

It’s good seeing all the interfaces and reminiscing.

By Derek Jones on March 31, 2004 at 03:07pm link

I’ve always thought that BeOS has one of the nicest UIs.  An audio mixing system I used to use called LCS ran on that platform.

At one point Apple was working on a deal to purchase BeOS, and base their next-gen OS on it.  Then the Steve Jobs deal came along and BE became a footnote.  I was kind of bummed out when I heard they killed the BE deal since I was fond of the platform.

By Rick on March 31, 2004 at 06:35pm link

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