OS GUIs & Just About Everything You Wanted To Know About Them

[Plasma Man]

As it happens, I just bumped into this site today ...

http://www.guidebookgallery.org/ is an amazing project covering over 40 years worth of GUIs for a great number of OSes. At best, it's a reminder of the power of graphic simplicity of some of the older systems.

The site has been developed by Marcin Wichary and you can read more about the project here:http://www.guidebookgallery.org/site/about

A tremendous amount of work has gone into this. The screen caps are excellent and each OS is cross- referenced with articles, books, links etc.

Well worth a look.

Andre

[mouser]

fantastic site 

[Jimdoria]

I'd seen this site referenced on a GEOS-related e-mail ist I belong to.

Neat that some of these older GUIs are now being open-sourced (GEM.) I still remember being excited when BeOS was announced. 

[Gothi[c]]

Great find!
Is it just me or does qnx look awesome?

[mouser]

it's just you 

[Rover]

QNX is on of those OS's I'd love to need.  I first saw it at '89 Comdex (remember when that was cool?) and thought it looked kinda neat.  Then I read about their micro-kernel design in the 90's and thought it was really cool.  Right around 2000 they had a demo floppy that had the Kernel, IP stack and a GUI brower all in 1.44MB.  BTW it was real time mutli-tasking too.

Anyway, I have never had a really good excuse to buy it, but I keep hoping someday I will.