21 Aug
2012
21 Aug
'12
3:46 p.m.
Though Apollos were much more Unix-like than actual Unix, the DM
environment (display manager?) on Apollo Aegis, Domain/IX, and
Domain/OS workstations was pretty interesting, most notably for the
sophisticated interaction between the command-line and GUI. The DM was a
lot like the Moxie carbonated beverage - you either liked it or you
really wanted to spit it out. Apollo systems also ran various versions
of the X Window system, but the unique stuff was in the DM.
Site such as Toastytech's GUI Timeline
(http://toastytech.com/guis/guitimeline.html) and Typewritten Software's
Retrotechnology Media page (http://www.typewritten.org/Media/) have many
screen shots of old GUIs and apps, many on Unix or Unix-like systems.
Bill
21 Aug
21 Aug
4:25 p.m.
New subject: Classic Unix workstation GUIs
Ug. I used them. Hated them. Best thing I ever did was port the
C compiler from the Apollos to Sun. Way faster.
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 09:46:29AM -0400, William von Hagen wrote:
Though Apollos were much more Unix-like than actual
Unix, the DM
environment (display manager?) on Apollo Aegis, Domain/IX, and
Domain/OS workstations was pretty interesting, most notably for the
sophisticated interaction between the command-line and GUI. The DM was a
lot like the Moxie carbonated beverage - you either liked it or you
really wanted to spit it out. Apollo systems also ran various versions
of the X Window system, but the unique stuff was in the DM.
Site such as Toastytech's GUI Timeline
(http://toastytech.com/guis/guitimeline.html) and Typewritten Software's
Retrotechnology Media page (http://www.typewritten.org/Media/) have many
screen shots of old GUIs and apps, many on Unix or Unix-like systems.
Bill
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7:56 p.m.
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+1 for the BLIT, I loved those.
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 01:54:25PM -0400, ron(a)ronnatalie.com wrote:
While it wasn't a workstation in its own, there was always the BLiT (aka
jerq) and the commercialization of it the AT&T 5620 DMD. I had one
of the latter on my desk for a while before we switched to Suns and SGIs
at BRL.<br /><br />
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23 Aug
23 Aug
11:23 p.m.
New subject: Classic Unix workstation GUIs
Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 09:46:29AM -0400, William von Hagen wrote:
Though Apollos were much more Unix-like than actual
Unix, the DM
environment (display manager?) on Apollo Aegis, Domain/IX, and
Domain/OS workstations was pretty interesting, most notably for the
sophisticated interaction between the command-line and GUI.
We at our "Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante" Computer Museum
had our Apollo workstation online for free, with Domain/OS up
and running :) If someone want to try using this machine we can
arrange to put it back online - we're actually settling into a
new space so most of our online historical machines are actually
offline...
more to come at http://museum.freaknet.org (including an
english version, sorry!)
p.s. we have some manuals and Domain/OS tape dumps available!
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24 Aug
24 Aug
2 a.m.
New subject: Classic Unix workstation GUIs
Thanks for all the pointers to interesting Unix desktops of the past.
Andrew looks especially interesting, given how complete its provided
toolset was and the fact that it was open source. I wonder why it
didn't make a bigger splash in the era of early Linux and x86 BSD.
Mike
31 Aug
31 Aug
7:54 p.m.
New subject: Classic Unix workstation GUIs
Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 09:46:29AM -0400, William von Hagen wrote:
Though Apollos were much more Unix-like than actual
Unix, the DM
environment (display manager?) on Apollo Aegis, Domain/IX, and
Domain/OS workstations was pretty interesting, most notably for the
sophisticated interaction between the command-line and GUI.
Today we restarted our Apollo Series 400 with Domain/OS SR10.3.5
that is perfectly working as 5 years ago, when we stored it into
our deposit... There are some pictures here:
http://museo.freaknet.org/workstation-hp-apollo-series-400/
We are planning of putting it online for some hours in a week if
someone want to play with it...
Sorry for the italian language in our main site, we're working
on an english version (and also fixing a lot of things about the
site) so please be patient, we hope in a few days we will have
an international version!
\o/
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