Hallo Jerry!
>out with a GUI interface that takes you farther and farther away from
I just remember a very good GUI.
It was the GEOS operating system for the commodore 64.
That was a real operating system that brought graphical elements (menus
and buttons and such) and technical improvement to the C64. It could use
RAM extensions (that where in a similar technology like EMS boards) as
disks, brought event-oriented programming, speedup programs for floppy
drives, the concept of printer and input device drivers and the wastebin
to such a slow machine.
It was normally delivered with a file-manager-like shell, but other
shells were developed, too, including two CLIs and something that
slightly resembles norton commander.
It was a dramatic improvement to the standard C64 OS and it's user
interface (consisting only of an awfully slow basic interpreter).
By the way, the NewDeal package is the sucessor of GEOS and therefore
there are still some similarities left.
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Gunnar Th�le
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