OSes Historical OS desktop environments (pictures)

[majorbloodnok]

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What Microsoft and IBM did was start a path of standards.
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Microsoft yes, IBM not so much.

Exactly what you say about Apple and proprietary kit is true and I dislike that too. However in the PC world Compaq and IBM were two of the biggest culprits for trying that themselves. They failed, however, because they didn’t have the critical mass to force the issue. That too was a good thing.

 

[Second Summer]

I stumbled upon a YT video about GEM, and was reminded of this thread - it relates to what I said in my first bullet point in post #5 about Apple suing Digital Research:

I have to say I enjoy the aesthetic of GEM, and I think I would have preferred it to the early MS Windows versions, running on top of DOS. I'm even tempted to try and install it in a virtual machine. I wonder what it could have been like now if it had been maintained and developed further.