9 Aug
2012
9 Aug
'12
5:48 p.m.
On 2012-08-09 22:10, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
On 8/9/12 10:21 AM, Richard wrote:
Gah! It's over 20 years now since I used the window system on Domain OS,
but I still shudder at the memory. It was not fun.
From what small details I can still remember it made no difference
between the mouse pointer and the text cursor. Move one, and you moved
both. Input for a window was normally done in a special sub-window one
line high, at the bottom of the window.
In general it was weird and somewhat unintuitive, and we *longed* for a
switch to X11, but since X11 took much more resources, it took a few
years before we actually switched.
There were some cool concepts in Domain/OS, but for the most part, it
was just weird and horrible.
Johnny
>I have been attempting to find details on the
Apollo DOMAIN/OS
>windowing environment before they started running X11, but so far
>haven't been able to find much of anything.
>
There wasn't anything in the Apollo documents on bitsavers?
In the queue are about 100 ESDI Apollo disks with what HP had left of Apollo's
development environment. I'm hoping they're still readable.