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And I used Windows already back in the 90s, so I know exactly what the PC experience looks like with all its BSODs and token rings.
by AnonymousPlanet 10y ago
And I used Windows already back in the 90s, so I know exactly what the PC experience looks like with all its BSODs and token rings.
- pjmlp 10y agoAt least it already had RAD GUI tools that cared about usability while most UNIX terminals that I was still using in 1994 were green phosphor ones.
- AnonymousPlanet 10y agoWell, speak for yourself. About the same time, our local university had very impressive Irix X-terminals with a rock solid GUI. It might be that you have only had a small glimpse of the things beyond PCs back then. And that seems to still have an impact on your perception of things on the "Unix" side ;)
- pjmlp 10y agoYou mean like this in 1991? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg I would have rather used the GUI tooling of a NeXT, which eschews the UNIX traditions even though it builds partially on top of them, than the Solaris way of programming GUIs, if given the option. Just because I could only access green phosphor terminals, doesn't mean I wasn't aware of other, more expensive, options.