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CDE really sucked compared to VUE that came before it (though which was only on HPUX)
by wkat4242 2y ago
CDE really sucked compared to VUE that came before it (though which was only on HPUX)
- kjellsbells 2y agoCan you remind HN what was special about VUE? My dim memory of it was that it was very CDE-like, in contrast to other environments of the time, such as Sun OpenWindows. Did VUE have some particular special sauce?
- wkat4242 2y agoIt was a lot prettier. Fruitier colours, modern sans serif fonts. And it had a cool hp logo on the dock, it made it look like a little computer. It always made me happy when I logged in in the morning. Then CDE came and it felt like work. When they partnered with sun and IBM to make CDE it got all boringified and businessy :P Serif fonts, boring designs etc. But yea it was very CDE like because the UI for CDE was basically taken from VUE. CDE had a few thingies that were a bit more advanced like more things you could just configure by clicking instead of messing with config files.