Post AOSUD37CKkWScTOew4 by uoou@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AOSUD0gtLaI96J4cee by anjune@linuxrocks.online
2022-10-10T11:19:53Z
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This, although from 1996 and thus in a sense modern, really just confuses me. Is that’s just what it’s like to see a WIMP UI for the first time, or is this PaRaDiGm less… reasonable… than the ones that succeeded? I guess I’m set in my ways now and actually less open to new approaches. @uoou
(DIR) Post #AOSUD1HP9pUyvY9mZE by uoou@mastodon.social
2022-10-11T09:50:36Z
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@anjune What is it? I can see bits of everything in there - GEM and Workbench, early windows and mac.I think it just looks confusing to us cos it's still using words a lot rather than iconifying everything?
(DIR) Post #AOSUD1qr21r4hUk5p2 by anjune@linuxrocks.online
2022-10-11T09:51:31Z
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@uoou It is Xerox GlobalView, a distant descendant of the original GUI…
(DIR) Post #AOSUD2KzDzxSCwq9my by uoou@mastodon.social
2022-10-11T09:52:33Z
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@anjune Ahh makes sense. Can see all the ideas that went into later things.Is that what was on the Altos?
(DIR) Post #AOSUD2krfmerVCwp7o by anjune@linuxrocks.online
2022-10-11T09:53:13Z
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@uoou This is from 1996 for PCs. It seems to be using a FAT filesystem, going by the directory listing in one of the screenshots…
(DIR) Post #AOSUD37CKkWScTOew4 by uoou@mastodon.social
2022-10-11T09:54:35Z
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@anjune :DExplain "blank file templates" if you would?
(DIR) Post #AOSUD3ZYdJCw2QfJ8i by anjune@linuxrocks.online
2022-10-11T09:56:05Z
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@uoou Like there’s a template for a spreadsheet file, and you first click that to create a new spreadsheet file, and it opens in the Spreadsheet application? Something like that
(DIR) Post #AOSUD3vXJamx8awrOi by uoou@mastodon.social
2022-10-11T09:56:44Z
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@anjune :DI kinda love that. I can see how that makes sense coming from a documents-first company.
(DIR) Post #AOSUD4XT2Z872Eh9WK by anjune@linuxrocks.online
2022-10-11T09:57:51Z
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@uoou Even makes sense for the "desktop paradigm", as you don’t have a spreadsheet application lying around on your physical desktop. Or maybe you do. I don’t know these things…
(DIR) Post #AOSUD4uVetYsBhTYR6 by uoou@mastodon.social
2022-10-11T10:00:45Z
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@anjune To be fair, if you open an office application by itself, they present you with basically the same thing.Never really clocked how weird that all is.
(DIR) Post #AOSUD5QPkH59meP2AK by anjune@linuxrocks.online
2022-10-11T10:04:00Z
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@uoou Well, what else are they supposed to do…
(DIR) Post #AOSUD5yngQaVVIUUlM by uoou@mastodon.social
2022-10-11T10:09:09Z
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@anjune I never really got to the bottom of why I hated Win95 so much. And still hate that PARGIDIGNEIM in general.Win 3.x seemed (conceptually) clean and the Win95 way of doing things always just feels messy and icky to me.
(DIR) Post #AOSUD6RVxfYYwLvQWG by ChrisWere@toot.wales
2022-10-11T10:13:10Z
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@uoou @anjune My dad is of the exact same mindset, but I've always thought Win95 was alright.
(DIR) Post #AOSUD6uaDaoCOVWdpQ by boilingsteam@mastodon.cloud
2022-10-11T13:03:23Z
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@ChrisWere @uoou @anjune Win95 was already an hybrid mix of old DOS, old Win3.1 and new Windows paradigm. I agree it was "not too bad", but it was never great either.
(DIR) Post #AOSUD8RwV35TAG8nSq by anjune@linuxrocks.online
2022-10-11T09:53:34Z
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@uoou REDBLO~1.BMP… shudder