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> The article is thin on user interfaces. It jumps from a 1940 idea of GUI to Mother of all demos and then to mention some GUIs and OSs from the 80s. AFAIK ther
by WoodenChair 5y ago
> The article is thin on user interfaces. It jumps from a 1940 idea of GUI to Mother of all demos and then to mention some GUIs and OSs from the 80s. AFAIK there were a lot of GUIs during the 80s with only a handful (Macintosh, Amiga, X windows, MS Windows) surviving.
I feel like you didn't read it, despite it not being a long article. It stops at 1980, not '80s. Also it covers Sketchpad, Alto, and PERQ (the latter of which I hadn't heard of) in addition to Memex and the Mother of All Demos. It wouldn't make sense to cover 1980s GUIs when the article explicitly ends in 1980. It's obviously not meant to be a comprehensive history but just a taste of pre '80s GUI history.