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Re:Nextspace: a desktop environment that brings a NeXTSTEP l... by AtlasBarfed on Monday December 13, 2021 @06:32PM (#29546170)
How dare you deny the Hamburger? And two paths moved through the forest, and our civilization took the Hamburger Menu path. And nothing was the same ever. What a thing the hamburger menu is. One can only divide the history of UI between the pre-hamburger and post-hamburger days.

Plus, I love how we went from 100Mhz to 4 gigahertz and waaayyyy more parallel issue, and yet I still routinely have delayed typing output in 2021 on almost every device and computing platform I use. At least several times a day I count: 4 billion, 8 billion, 12 billion 16 billion... and then my text appears and I can resume typing.

NeXT was great. The Magnetic drive, maybe not so much. It was the original borg cube!

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Re:Nextspace: a desktop environment that brings a NeXTSTEP l... by Lammy on Monday December 13, 2021 @06:51PM (#29546324)
> NeXT was great. The Magnetic drive, maybe not so much. It was the original borg cube!

There's some lost lore there: the "beachball" cursor that still lives in macOS was a pictogram of a spinning MO disc. It was a lot more obvious in Mac OS X 10.0 and 10.1 before it was redrawn into Aqua-style in Jagwire.

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