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Re:Where Have You Gone, Peter Norton? (2014) by core-questions on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @10:51PM (#21709835)
Does anyone remember the Norton Desktop shell for Windows 3.1? It turned 3.1 into something beating the Mac in terms of a desktop experience. Absolutely amazing levels of customization, a full shell scripting language with GUI components reminiscent of Tk/Wish, I could go on.

That desktop plus the whole set of Windows 3.1 programs were a killer combo.

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Re:Where Have You Gone, Peter Norton? (2014) by jaclaz on Thursday December 05, 2019 @09:50AM (#21712670)
Sure I remember it, it also came with a sort of scripting (very much batch-like) language.

I remember writing a pseudo-GUI for PKzip in it at the time (WinZip was more or less the only graphical zip tool and it costed too much).

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Re:Where Have You Gone, Peter Norton? (2014) by core-questions on Thursday December 05, 2019 @07:47PM (#21718341)
Shame that so many interesting GUIs like this simply fell away, and meanwhile my Linux GNOME desktop still doesn't feel as obvious and powerful as that machine did back in 1994.
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Re:Where Have You Gone, Peter Norton? (2014) by jaclaz on Sunday December 08, 2019 @02:24PM (#21737661)
Well, there was also the MC Shell, you can get a copy from here (in case you get an attack of nostalgia and have a VM or a spare old-old machine available):

http://reboot.pro/topic/752-mcshell-a-shell-look-a-like-to-m...

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Re:Where Have You Gone, Peter Norton? (2014) by mixmastamyk on Thursday December 05, 2019 @02:24AM (#21710575)
Don’t remember it, but sounds neat.
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Re:Where Have You Gone, Peter Norton? (2014) by core-questions on Thursday December 05, 2019 @02:37AM (#21710613)
http://toastytech.com/guis/ndw.html has some screenshots.
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