Amiga blended a main "workbench" screen on which incidental apps (cli windows, small utilities, filesystem guis, and so on) with the capability for an app to open its own screen and do whatever it wants.
I think the primary motivation for this feature at the time was to allow different apps to run in different video modes. Obviously now the motives are different. But it's still a striking resemblance. -Jonathan On Oct 25, 2010 4:48 PM, "Les Stroud" <[email protected]> wrote: > Tor, in a recent episode, talked about Apple integrating more SDI > style user interfaces into their products (which was a turn off for > him). I'm not sure it is as dramatic as he was making it. I see it as > just another option. (albeit one were Apple could make a load of > money) What's interesting, is Ubuntu just announced a similar > strategic plan (http://blogs.computerworld.com/17224/ > ubuntu_changes_its_desktop_from_gnome_to_unity). > > Are we starting to see a strategic, industry wide, shift? For years, > sun talked about the connected application as the future of the > desktop. Is that what we are seeing? With M$ adding an appstore in > W8, will they too follow a consumer single task model for their ui > designs? With appstores in all the major OS's (i am including the way > Ubuntu allows you to find and install/uninstall free apps), are we > seeing an evolution away from the web as we know it? > > Thoughts? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> . > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
