We continue our tour in years gone by, showing the evolution of the GUI 1986 to 1990!
IRIX 3 (released in 1986, the first release 1984)
IRIX operating system was created for 64-bit UNIX. He had an interesting features was support for vector icons, this features was created in this GUI long before Mac OS X was born!
GEOS (released in 1986)
GEOS (Graphic Environment Operating System) was developed by Berkeley Softworks (later GeoWorks). Uinizialmente was created for the Commodore 64 and included a graphical word processor and a program called geoWrite geoPaint to draw.
Windows 2.0x (released in 1987)
In this version, we had been significant improvements in window management. These could be overlapped, resized, maximized and minimized.
OS / 2 1.x (released in 1988)
OS / 2 was originally developed by IBM and Microsoft, but in 1991 the two companies will split, with Microsoft incorporating the technology in its Windows and IBM developing OS / 2. The GUI used in OS / 2 was called "Presentation Manager" and only supported monochrome icons and fixed.
NeXTSTEP / OpenStep 1.0 (released in 1989)
Steve Jobs had the idea to create the perfect computer for academics and researchers, this idea turned into the start-up NeXT Computer Inc.
The first NeXT computer was released in 1988, however, there were significant advances in the interface in 1989 with the release of NeXTSTEP 1.0 GUI, which later became OpenStep.
The icons were bigger (48 × 48) and was introduced to the management of multiple colors.
OS / 2 1.20 (released in 1989)
This version was an improvement in the GUI was improved management of the icons and windows, making them more pleasant.
Windows 3.0 (released in 1990)
With this release, Microsoft made a very powerful GUI and began to increase significantly.
The operating system supports more than 640KB memory, disk space and more high-resolution screens like SVGA (800 × 600 and 1024 × 768).
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 12, 2009
"IRIX operating system was created for 64-bit Linux," are you sure?
In 1986 Linux was not designed.
IRIX operating system is based on SGI's Unix System V, which uses a graphical user interface + Motif and X Window System that runs on hardware based on MIPS architecture developed by SGI itself.
The user interface was called at the time of IRIX Indigo Magic, then later became known as the IRIX Interactive Desktop.
ADAM Hello!
Thanks for pointing this out! Mend soon!
How could you not mention AmigaOs2.0?
Hello Andy Gracia, the Amiga Os2.0 you'll find it in the next article!
Hello, IRIX other fixes here too ... it was a business owner of the Unix SGI (Silicon Graphics Inc) was responsible for graphics and ran normally on mainframe MIPS cpu .... Had a say only in the use of large mainframes used for calculations involving 2D and 3D graphics. No longer being developed since 2006, paving the SGI keeps as it is passed to support linux. Cmq do not think the gui is called IRIX what was the name of UNIX business to its gui ... usually it was certainly based on the motif as all those used in UNIX environments ... eg. among many that the first was called Solaris CDE ... now do not remember what it was called that in IRIX.
The Geos is true he had fame as a gui + 8bit Commodore of the geos but in truth it was initially designed for all computers fitted with an 8bit cpu MOS6502 and this was also mounted by the CPU AppleII existed and in fact also a version for Geos AppleII . The one in your screenshot is 2.0, the 1.0 was much uglier eheheh
In Win 2.x is to be noted that precisely enhancements such as icons and windows drew the ire of Apple just as happened with the GEM and this began the first causes of MS and Apple, but there were already between these two contracts partnerships for other software already in those days, there were also cmq win 3.x with the appearance of many of these court cases that ended in stalemate but always with an MS or victory.
In OS / 2 you wrote that MS incorporated this technology in Windows, say it is fair to say that this created a new Windows NT, which was, HPFS, OS / 2 was the same identical to the first ntfs NT3.1, the gap between MS and IBM occurred because IBM did not want to be controlled by MS claims that they were doing in dos pressing. Immediately after the separation created an IBM OS / 2 2.1 for Windows in the 90's and was a real switch from Win 3.x upgrade for OS / 2 ... year after the MS responded with WinNT and OS / 2 is opened the doors of the defeat.
The NextStep 1.0 was only in black and white, the screenshot you have is to put NextStep 3.0 .... In fact, the failure of the computer as Nextcube despite its extreme computing power it was that its graphics were bad ... and while there were precisely correct versions back now after the trouble had been committed, and Jobs returned to Apple quickly ... the same little note Jobs tried again in 2000 to launch a G4cube ... surely remembering the Nextcube ... also was a flop G4cube tremendous! Ah then OpenStep is a very post-nextstep has little affinity indeed ... believe me, actually comes from gnustep OpenStep in conjunction with Sun in an idea a little 'weird that never led to anything ... we say that the graph is the look' only thing that makes them similar ... but about the appearance of the NextStep in its time did scatturire interest also in the communities so as to create open WM similar in linux XFree like AfterStep, and also the icewm wmaker.
3.0 in win one of the biggest new addition to improved graphics we say that we saw was not the Protected / Enhanced mode which allowed the memory itself to bypass the limitations of management that have made the dos memory, in fact the win 3.0 could be launched Real in three modes, Standard and Enhanced 386 ... Real was the basic, standard (or Protected) was also used in the win2.x usually about 286 ... the last name by exploiting the news of the 386. For these reasons, the 3.x was also the first in which they could launch apps directly under DOS window in the win.