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A bitmapped GUI is a different beast. You can use WordPerfect with a mouse but it's not a GUI. Borland's Turbo Vision, which had a TUI windowing system, didn't
by postmodest 3y ago
A bitmapped GUI is a different beast. You can use WordPerfect with a mouse but it's not a GUI. Borland's Turbo Vision, which had a TUI windowing system, didn't come out until 1990. GEM was 1984, after the Lisa and during the lead-up to the first Mac sales. (And, honestly, how many Atari ST's ever sold?)
- Stratoscope 3y agoThere were definitely TUIs of various sorts well before 1990, although they tended to be application-specific rather than "operating system" level stuff. Here's one I shipped in 1983: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-11-rescan/page/n199/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-11-rescan/pag... A better-known system from the time was Framework, developed by Robert Carr and team and released in 1984: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework_(office_suite) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework_(office_suite)
- postmodest 3y agoI had never heard of Framework. Here's a link with examples of a later version: https://winworldpc.com/product/framework/xe https://winworldpc.com/product/framework/xe I had only ever seen "embedded" TUIs like on word processors, but even then, I only saw them after the Mac came out, and they were being dumped at thrift stores and flea markets. ...one time in '96, I came across someone selling a complete Xerox Daybreak at a flea market.