A 'graphical user interface (GUI) allows users to interact with the computer hardware in a simple and friendly over the years have developed a set of GUI for different operating systems, like OS / 2, Macintosh, Windows, Amiga, Linux, Symbian OS, and many others.
We will now look at the evolution of a GUI developed for the major operating systems.
I should mention that we will consider only the most significant advances in the design (not operating system) not all the possible variants developed.
The first GUI was developed by researchers at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the 70s. This research has opened a new era of innovation in computer graphics.
The first personal computer that has used modern graphical interface was the Xerox Alto, developed in 1973. There is a commercial product and was designed especially for research at universities.
The first part will analyze the years 1981-1985.
Xerox Star 8010 (released in 1981)
This was the first system that offers a computer desktop GUI applications and fully integrated. He was known as "Xerox Star", later renamed "ViewPoint" and later renamed again to "GlobalView".
Apple Lisa Office System 1 (released in 1983)
Also known as Lisa OS, short for Office System. It 'was developed by Apple with the intent to be a workstation for document processing.
Unfortunately this work was not completed, replaced by Apple with the Macintosh operating system.
There were upgrades to Lisa OS: Lisa SO 2 in 1983 and Lisa OS 7/7 3.1 in 1984, which aggiornarono the system itself, but not the GUI.
The VisiCorp Faces (released in 1984)
Visi On was the first graphical user interface developed by IBM for the PC. This system was aimed at large companies and was very expensive. The GUI made use of a mouse, but no icons.
Mac OS System 1.0 (released in 1984)
It was the first operating system GUI developed for the Macintosh. He had several characteristics in common with a modern operating system, being based on windows and icons. The windows could be moved with the mouse and files and folders could be copied by drag and drop target location.
Amiga Workbench 1.0 (released in 1985)
When it was released for the first time, and was innovative for its time. The GUI included features such as color graphics (four colors: black, white, blue, orange), pre-emptive multitasking, stereo sound and multi-state icons (selected and unselected).
Windows 1.0x (released in 1985)
This year Microsoft finally develops the entire user interface releasing Windows 1.0, its first GUI based operating system. The system is characterized by color icons of 32 × 32 pixels. The most interesting feature (which was later dropped) was the animated analog clock.
GEM (released in 1985)
GEM (Graphical Environment Manager) was a windowing GUI created by Digital Research, Inc. (DRI). It was initially created for use with the operating system CP / M for Intel 8088 and Motorola 68000 and was later developed to run on DOS. Most people will remember GEM as the GUI for Atari ST computers. Was also used on a series of computer Amstrad. The GUI was also ported to other computers, but it was not very popular.
Sources
Guidebook for the continuous work on GUI design .
Nathan Toasty's graphical user interface gallery .
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This post was written by admin on May 11, 2009
Cool! want to see that you took all the snapshots from a web page that collects rather famosetta the history of interfaces, but you forgot to mention it?
Hello FussyPenguin!
Obviously I was inspired by other articles and took pictures but no one but rather 'two sites rather famous!
I have not mentioned here, because I thought to do the last part of the article ...
If you think so much "smarter" I put them in every article!
Fussypenguin want to be smart ...
With the article, great!
Hello, very well made these guided historical summaries on fast .... I can add that GEM had no luck because there was a famous trial between Apple and DR won by Apple in which it stated that GEM was a copy of your System (ah Another note is called the first macos System changed its name only from version 8 onwards) DR was consequently forced to remove the GEM x86 (both dos that the cp / m) a set of functions, including icons and resizable windows that condemned to become a vapid useless crap. These limitations, however, did not cover versions of GEM 68000-, this was very strange eh (even if TOS is a rewrite from scratch GEM) ... why the mac back then had this cpu from here ... born precisely of the TOS AtariST and in fact created a real enemy for the mac in fact who saw the ST series as a direct competitor, so that the name of affibiarono Jackintosh (Jack Tramiel one of the main creators of the series and not just ST).