Blit: a multitasking, windowed Unix GUI from 1982
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Blit: a multitasking, windowed Unix GUI from 1982
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Re: Blit: a multitasking, windowed Unix GUI from 1982
#2I dig the terminology they use. Layer is a great term. Also loved the distinct lack of chrome around layers. The invisible interface is still the future.
Re: Blit: a multitasking, windowed Unix GUI from 1982
#3It's a UNIX system! I know this!
Re: Blit: a multitasking, windowed Unix GUI from 1982
#4Rob Pike again. Over the years he's done pretty much _everything_.
Re: Blit: a multitasking, windowed Unix GUI from 1982
#5I could work on this system. Give me a couple of terminals with vim, and a webbrowser in a different layer (of course that system precedes the web) and I could do 90% of what I'm doing today to get work done.
Re: Blit: a multitasking, windowed Unix GUI from 1982
#6Ah, early GUIs. For comparison, take a look at Xerox' Cedar and Smalltalk, or Wirth's Lillith and Oberon, all from pretty much the same era.
The Lilith systems are often overlooked. They predate the Blit, are programmed in Modula-2, translated to bytecode. Oberon is a bit more well-known, but still not as much as both the language and the OS deserve.
Lilith demo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob0lznzkykc
Some screenshots & pics: http://pascal.hansotten.com/index.php?page=photos-of-lilith
Cedar demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-_zVkrWCOk
(Smalltalk and Oberon are a bit easier to find and more well-known anyway)
Re: Blit: a multitasking, windowed Unix GUI from 1982
#7Ah, early GUIs. For comparison, take a look at Xerox' Cedar and Smalltalk, or Wirth's Lillith and Oberon, all from pretty much the same era. The Lilith systems are often overlooked. They predate the Blit, are programmed in Modula-2, translated to bytecode. Oberon is a bit more well-known, but still not as much as both the language and the OS deserve. Lilith demo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob0lznzkykc Some…
Ah, early GUIs.
Sadly, the 5620 launched in 1984, the same year as the first Macintosh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Macintosh_Desktop.p...
Re: Blit: a multitasking, windowed Unix GUI from 1982
#8Except for the green tinge that's pretty much what my setup looks like. Borderless terminals in a tiling window manager with vim and assorted CLI programs. Except of course for iceweasel. Because there's only so far w3m will take you (not very).
Re: Blit: a multitasking, windowed Unix GUI from 1982
#9I had one of these on my desk in 1984. It was very usable.
As for having more than one on a desk, you had better have a really well built one. As I recall, it weighed about 75lbs.
Re: Blit: a multitasking, windowed Unix GUI from 1982
#10Ah, early GUIs. For comparison, take a look at Xerox' Cedar and Smalltalk, or Wirth's Lillith and Oberon, all from pretty much the same era. The Lilith systems are often overlooked. They predate the Blit, are programmed in Modula-2, translated to bytecode. Oberon is a bit more well-known, but still not as much as both the language and the OS deserve. Lilith demo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob0lznzkykc Some…
Ah, early GUIs. Sadly, the 5620 launched in 1984, the same year as the first Macintosh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Macintosh_Desktop.p...
Not really competitors. The VT220 terminal (the target for every "terminal emulator") came out in '83.