We had document/text oriented interfaces in the 80s that were also graphical like in Genera, a lisp machine OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genera_(operating_s

We had document/text oriented interfaces in the 80s that were also graphical like in Genera, a lisp machine OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genera_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genera_(operating_system) Note that Genera itself is, AFAIK, proprietary software. But its predecessor (or at least one of them) has been released as Open Source. http://www.unlambda.com/index.php?n=Main.Mit http://www.unlambda.com/index.php?n=Main.Mit HN'ers interested in experimenting with this direction in computing might find the old Lisp Machine code of interest.