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Doing Windows, Part 2: From Interface Manager to Windows

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Other article https://www.slashgear.com/original-windows-demo-video-shows-...

With the video https://youtu.be/vnDRw8-caxU?t=415

For all the shaky camera work, the video still looks better with its global shutter, than contemporary jelly-looking rolling shutter CMOS sensor.

analog ftw

I think that our mind enjoys that better than hyper sophisticated digital trickery

/me goes back to scavenging crt tvs

Before reading this article, I'd never connected the concept of a computer menu with a restaurant menu.

It's a bit of a dated analogy now, but if you put it in perspective of the early 80's it was truly revolutionary.

Could you imagine that restaurant menu today? Gordon Ramsey would be swearing with the spit flying if your establishment had as many items on the menu as Excel or Word!

It's just that, on a restaurant menu, there's less of a chance of blindly selecting the Global Thermonuclear War option.

I believe it is, over at Burger King, home of the WOPR.

Amazing piece of historical journalism. Thumbs up for the quality material. Thank you for posting this.

you should read all of Jimmy's stuff, or better yet support him. His writing has only gotten better over the years and if you're a adventure/sim/IF gaming buff (which I'm not) it's even better. He recently finished a 10(?) part retrospective on Civilization which lost me in the weeds but was still awesome.

Agreed, I really enjoyed all the early articles about text adventure games. It really is worth starting at the top of the table of contents and reading his stuff sequentially.

Thanks Jimmy!

I went deeper on Jimmy's Maher work and found a collection of his published e-books: https://www.filfre.net/the-digital-antiquarian-e-book-librar.... To say I'm impressed is to say nothing at all. He did a stellar job, filling the historical gap between generations.

Jimmy and contributors - you made my day guys. Thanks a lot for all the hints.

"For another, true multitasking would be possible under Windows, claimed Microsoft"

I had forgotten how terrible the early versions of Windows looked compared to Lisa, Amiga and even OS/2 and DR's GEM.

Even 7 years later Windows 3 only had cooperative multi tasking that in reality was program launcher with background printing. Applications were hopeless at releasing processor and if you tried to multi task you often crashed the whole OS. It was, of course, hugely commercially successful from 3 on. :)

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