Desktop Metaphor

[ben]

On 10/22/2018 10:57 AM, Rick Bensene via cctalk wrote:
> X-Windows-based desktop metaphor UI's existed within the Unix world long before Win95 came on the scene.
> The whole desktop metaphor UI existed long before Windows 95 in non-Unix implementations by Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) with the pioneering Xerox Alto, introduced in 1973,  which implemented  Alan Kay's concepts for the desktop metaphor that were postulated in 1970 using Smalltalk as the core operating system.

That may be true but DOS/WINDOWS and APPLE II all had TV display output 
formats, now it is WIDE SCREEN ONLY. From what little I have seen about 
the Alto, you had a full sized 8x10? page format. The printed page
DOES matter for graphic displays. Try and find a printed page size PDF
reader, or one a tad smaller. Reading a PDF on a KINDLE DOES NOT WORK.
I suspect a good PDF reader, a not tablet, is needed often for all the
online doc's at places like bit savers to get the knowledge close to a
classic computer.

I hate GUI's,because I hate ICON's. I see a little hand popup, is a 
mouse pointer,stop that sign, or play feel the naked photo.

Ben.