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Two things I noticed from looking at the screenshots: 1. The MS Windows 7 Task Manager look very similar to the KDE 1 version (from the late nineties): https:/
by Anthony-G 4y ago
Two things I noticed from looking at the screenshots:
1. The MS Windows 7 Task Manager look very similar to the KDE 1 version (from the late nineties): https://history.user-interface.io/img/kde-1/task-manager.jpeg https://history.user-interface.io/img/kde-1/task-manager.jpe...
2. In 1990, Microsoft referred to plain text files on the local system as “on-line documents”: https://history.user-interface.io/img/windows-3.0/notepad.png https://history.user-interface.io/img/windows-3.0/notepad.pn...
- Narishma 4y agoRegarding 2, back then online was often used to mean something in the computer, as opposed to outside of it. For example online help vs paper manuals.
- memetomancer 4y agoThe KDE 1 task manager looks _very_ similar to the Windows NT 4 task manager (from the mid nineties): https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/winnt40 https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/winnt40 (scroll down to 'task manager' and click the faint tab control marked '3' in the upper left of the specific screen shot) Until Win10, the NT OSes had that same basic task manager with the cool looking green graphs. WinNT 3.51 had a much more crude looking task manager
- Anthony-G 4y agoThanks for the info and the tips on how to view the screenshot of the “Performance” tab. I would have been using Windows 95 or 98 back then but I don’t remember it displaying resource usage like that. I started using Red Hat Linux 6 in 1999/2000 so wouldn’t be very familiar with Windows 2000 or XP.
- floren 4y agoI always thought KDE of that vintage was extremely attractive and pretty damn usable... Shame it got too "shiny" after KDE 1.