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Do you have that Windows 3.1 version that came with the Compaq that had the DE that was like a paper folder instead of an empty desktop, and that you could put
by a1o 5mo ago
Do you have that Windows 3.1 version that came with the Compaq that had the DE that was like a paper folder instead of an empty desktop, and that you could put the icons in the different tabs of the paper folder?
- andreww591 5mo agoI don't think I've heard of an alternate shell/launcher like that before. Do you remember what it was called?
- edoceo 5mo agoWindows still (well, Win2000) lets you build a custom shell, just replace explorer.exe (and a bunch of other work).
- andreww591 5mo agoI've heard of custom shells for Windows before, but not that specific one
- ForOldHack 5mo agoHSc made an alternate file manager for Windows 2. They never ported it to Windows 3.
- Avamander 5mo agoYour comment reminds me of HP's obscure EFI OS called QuickLook. I would guess there are a lot of obscure OSs out there.
- a1o 5mo agoOh, yeah! I think ASUS also had something like that at some point.
- lproven 5mo agoThere were multiple ones, including some by BIOS vendors offered to many hardware OEMs. Hyperspace was one of the most widely-seen. https://gekk.info/articles/hyperspace.htm https://gekk.info/articles/hyperspace.htm
- philistine 5mo agoI'd watch this if I were you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssob-7sGVWs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssob-7sGVWs
- Elfener 5mo agoI knew what video that was going to be before I clicked it. I highly recommend watching the whole series, including more cursed OSs created because windows booted slowly (?): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLec1d3OBbZ8IBeFODHXLy0m0okuZhqJnT https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLec1d3OBbZ8IBeFODHXLy...
- philistine 5mo ago> I knew what video that was going to be before I clicked it. A man of culture.
- lproven 5mo agoText article, instead of video, for other video-haters like me... https://gekk.info/articles/hp-quickweb.htm https://gekk.info/articles/hp-quickweb.htm
- simianpirate 5mo agoI believe you are speaking of Tabworks?
- a1o 5mo agoI had to Google and it does look like it, I remember the computer would boot into it and it also had space for a few (three?) icons outside the tabs (like in the “desktop”). It was a cool interface!
- xhrpost 5mo agoThat sounds correct, I know what the GP is describing, very first computer for me. I was actually rather unfamiliar with the basic Win 3.1 desktop.
- lproven 5mo agoHP had several innovative GUIs of its own, before Microsoft destroyed the market with a good enough one of its own. NewWave was its first and long predated even Windows 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewWave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewWave HP was once a UI and GUI pioneer and did other quite radical stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_User_Environment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_User_Environment TabWorks wasn't an HP thing -- it just bundled it with some consumer Compaq kit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TabWorks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TabWorks