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My first encounter with graphics on UNIX was in 1994 or 1995. It was CDE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

by taubek 5y ago

My first encounter with graphics on UNIX was in 1994 or 1995. It was CDE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment. Before that I've used GEOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system) on Commodore 64 :)

pantulis 5y ago
For me it was OpenWindows, I believe running on SunOS 4.x
- taubek 5y ago
  I remember that when I got my first gig as sys admin we've had two SGI workstations. I think that they were SGI Indigo2 workstations.
  - YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo 5y ago
    We had some SGI workstation running in a prepress print environment because Leonardo was the only software that could handle the amount data. Amazing little machines.
glandium 5y ago
Mine was in 95 on NCD X Terminals, machines that would only have a X server. ISTR they automatically were getting a Window Manager and a Terminal from a central VMS server. We'd then telnet to another VMS server, where we'd access a mailbox via CLI, or the web with Mosaic. There were also other SunOS or Linux servers for various purposes. The rooms where the terminals were had something like 20 terminals, and sometimes we fooled around by making things appear in sequence on each of them, as though they were moving from one to the next, which you could do from one of the servers, whuch would connect to each terminal in sequence (the good old days of all ports being freely accessible)
- taubek 5y ago
  I've used VMS just a few times. I didn't have an account on server running it so I could just use it when someone would let me.
  - glandium 5y ago
    I've used it a few years, but honestly I don't remember much of it. I remember files were versioned, the shell was called DCL command or something like that, and involved a lot of dollar signs and brackets... and that's about it. To think that I wrote entire scripts in that language...
- donio 5y ago
  There was also a local WM but I don't remember seeing anybody use it.

by taubek 5y ago

pantulis 5y ago

For me it was OpenWindows, I believe running on SunOS 4.x

taubek 5y ago
I remember that when I got my first gig as sys admin we've had two SGI workstations. I think that they were SGI Indigo2 workstations.
- YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo 5y ago
  We had some SGI workstation running in a prepress print environment because Leonardo was the only software that could handle the amount data. Amazing little machines.

glandium 5y ago

Mine was in 95 on NCD X Terminals, machines that would only have a X server. ISTR they automatically were getting a Window Manager and a Terminal from a central VMS server. We'd then telnet to another VMS server, where we'd access a mailbox via CLI, or the web with Mosaic. There were also other SunOS or Linux servers for various purposes. The rooms where the terminals were had something like 20 terminals, and sometimes we fooled around by making things appear in sequence on each of them, as though they were moving from one to the next, which you could do from one of the servers, whuch would connect to each terminal in sequence (the good old days of all ports being freely accessible)

taubek 5y ago
I've used VMS just a few times. I didn't have an account on server running it so I could just use it when someone would let me.
- glandium 5y ago
  I've used it a few years, but honestly I don't remember much of it. I remember files were versioned, the shell was called DCL command or something like that, and involved a lot of dollar signs and brackets... and that's about it. To think that I wrote entire scripts in that language...
donio 5y ago
There was also a local WM but I don't remember seeing anybody use it.