A short history of operating system interface designs since 1981. But what does it say about an operating system – Windows 1.0 in this case – when the only thing that can be said for it was that it had an interesting animated analog clock?
In this year Microsoft finally caught up with the whole graphical [...]
Microsoft right on time with Windows 1.0 GUI interface design
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 16 July, 2009 to the technology subset
DOS ain’t so bad after all
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 10 January, 2008 to the technology subset
DOS ain’t so bad after all.
An interesting argument in favour of not replacing or updating DOS interfaces with Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) merely for the sake of doing so.
There’s a lingering temptation among those of us in the industry to replace all so-called “antiquated” means of doing things with newfangled web interfaces. And rightly so, [...]
