Open look was originally from Sun NeWS, an alternative to X built with AT&T. Example: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/images/tnt.gif http://www.art.net/~hopkins

Open look was originally from Sun NeWS, an alternative to X built with AT&T. Example: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/images/tnt.gif http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/images/tnt.gif It was an interface that could degrade extremely well to monochrome and still look reasonable on the lousy LCDs of the 1980s. The hit points are large and spaced out enough so that it could be operated via the janky touch screens of the era as well Also NeWS used postscript as the display language. It extended it to allow the interactive elements. SGI also had a system based on NeWS called 4Sight: http://sgistuff.net/software/irixintro/images/irix-3.3-img2.gif http://sgistuff.net/software/irixintro/images/irix-3.3-img2.... Here's James Gosling (you know, guy that invented Java) talking about it for an hour or so from 1990 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4zG0uecYSMA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4zG0uecYSMA