It was also used on a series Amstrad’s IBM compatible computers. Most people will remember GEM as the GUI for the Atari ST computers. It was initially created for use with the CP/M operating system on the Intel 8088 and Motorola 68000 microprocessors and was later developed to run on DOS as well. GEM (Graphical Environment Manager) was a windowing style GUI created by Digital Research, Inc. The most interesting feature (which later was omitted) was the icon of the animated analog clock. The system featured 32×32 pixel icons and color graphics.
In this year Microsoft finally caught up with the whole graphical user interface craze and released Windows 1.0, its first GUI based operating system (although no one would dare to refer to it as one). The GUI included features such as color graphics (four colors: black, white, blue, orange), preemptive multitasking, stereo sound and multi-state icons (selected and unselected). When first released, Amiga was ahead of its time.
The windows could be moved around with the mouse and files and folders could be copied by dragging and dropping onto the target location.Īpple Mac System 1.0, Source: It had several features of a modern operating system, being windows based with icons. System 1.0 was the first operating system GUI developed for the Macintosh. The GUI made use of a mouse, it had a built-in installer and help system and it didn’t use icons. This system was targeted towards big corporations and came with a high price tag. Visi On was the first desktop GUI developed for the IBM PC. There were upgrades to Lisa OS, Lisa OS 2 in 1983 and Lisa OS 7/7 3.1 in 1984, that upgraded the system itself, but not the graphical user interface. Unfortunately this workstation didn’t last, it was killed by Apple’s Macintosh operating system that was more affordable. It was developed by Apple with the intention of being a document processing workstation. It was known as “The Xerox Star”, later renamed “ViewPoint” and later again renamed to “GlobalView”.Īpple Lisa Office System 1 (released in 1983)Īlso referred to as Lisa OS, which in this case is short for Office System. And it keeps getting better every few weeks or months.This was the first system that was referred to as a fully integrated desktop computer including applications and a GUI. (It's possible Terminal does some of the things I mention here-it's been so long since I've used it that I don't recall, but when I switched I paid close attention to the differences and there were lots of advantages to iTerm. I've been using it for years now and have never missed Terminal. Development is pretty active, but documentation seems to lag behind. Some are mentioned here but some are not, such as co-processes, triggers,smart selection, semantic history, and so on. paste history (a good complement to the shells' command histories)Īnd a lot more.