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And flat UI elements. And you interact with a single program that takes up most of the screen. The more things change...
by endgame 11y ago
And flat UI elements. And you interact with a single program that takes up most of the screen. The more things change...
- Stratoscope 11y agoTry launching a few programs (double-click the floppy disk after each one to open the MS-DOS Executive again) and then move them around. It's a tiled window manager!
- kristopolous 11y agooverlapping windows was actually a challenging problem within the constraints of the old hardware.
- bonzini 11y agoActually it was due to legal worries that Windows 1 only supported tiling. In Windows 2 they ignored the worries and Apple promptly sued.
- technofiend 11y agoThere's a million links on that, this is one of the first with names and dates: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=A_Rich_Neighbor_Named_Xerox.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=A_Rich_Neighbor_N...
- amyjess 11y agoAnd when people ask me why I can't stand flat UI, I have to tell them that it reminds me of the UIs everybody outgrew in the 80s and early 90s because they were ugly as sin. Flat UI just reminds me of Windows pre-95 and Mac OS pre-8, which I've never found aesthetically pleasing.