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Those Xerox Alto screenshots are amazing; I cannot imagine how exciting it must have been developing the seeds of the GUI way back in the mid 70s. Something abo
by oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
Those Xerox Alto screenshots are amazing; I cannot imagine how exciting it must have been developing the seeds of the GUI way back in the mid 70s. Something about that font makes it more pleasing than anything we have around today.
- agumonkey 13y agolook, whitespace flat http://toastytech.com/guis/altodraw.jpg http://toastytech.com/guis/altodraw.jpg my favorite user interface is still STAR though http://toastytech.com/guis/star.html http://toastytech.com/guis/star.html. B&W never looked better, the icons, their borders. Some screenshots look like they came from Tufte http://toastytech.com/guis/starapp3.jpg http://toastytech.com/guis/starapp3.jpg They had generic operations that were supported by many parts of the OS, like a move command used for files or data inside an editor. Like Algol, successors peaked below, they mostly provided superficial similarities. edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fap-mXY80ls http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fap-mXY80ls intran information system. Used to be hosted on google videos but the link in this page http://www.digibarn.com/collections/movies/digibarn-tv/gui-movies/intran/index.html http://www.digibarn.com/collections/movies/digibarn-tv/gui-m... is dead, so here's a new one.