On Monday 14 August 2006 16:51, Nick Rout wrote: > If you read slashdot this wil have been in your radar already. > > Kind of related to the discussion recently about desktops and distros > for old machines, this page has a brief and non-technical [1] history of > MacOS, Windows and KDE. > > Did anyone here besides me actually use KDE 1.x? Yes, extensively. I started with it at 0.99. It worked, albeit very slowly, but it was such a delightful change from the hassles of FVWM that I was hooked instantly.
> http://r-101.blogspot.com/ > > [1] as in its a set of screenshots focussed on eye candy only :-) It always strikes me as so unfair to the folks at PARC that these "non-technical [1] history" columns never seem to include the people who actually designed the first GUI. Note the date - 1973 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alto_(computer) -- CS
