On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 10:36 AM, william degnan via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Here is an interesting article from early 1988 (probably written in min > 1987) that compares and contrasts GUIs of the day. Interesting that they > do not mention OS/2 by name, by this point it would have been available, > given I used it in Jan 1987 when I was working at IBM. Also the XEROX > interface was not yet dead as the author makes it seem. If anyone used > Page Maker on a 1987/88 Xerox machine and compared that with "Windows OS/2" > machine trying to run the Page Maker on a PS/2 80 you'd probably agree. > > Basically I am unsure what planet the author was from, but you can decide > for yourself. Talks a little about HP's GUI product, Sun/AT&T, Apple > Finder, etc. Mentions NeXT is coming, Commodore is dead, ... opinionated. > > http://vintagecomputer.net/cisc367/PC-Letter_19880118.pdf > > Bill > Looks interesting. The title and the mention of OS/2* remind me of a book I once came across, called "Windows vs. OS/2: The GUI-OOUI war" : https://www.amazon.com/Windows-Vs-OS-Gui-Ooui-Interfaces/dp/0442017502 ** * I see OS/2 1.1 is mentioned in the article, but I haven't read it yet to see how it deals with it. ** It would have been better for the the subtitle to sound like "the ooey-gooey war", but alas. -- Eric Christopherson
