What have we lost? – Demo of exotic OSes (2021) [video]

Re:What have we lost? – Demo of exotic OSes (2021) [video] by wsc981 on Thursday August 25, 2022 @08:24PM (#32601818)

I kinda feel a modern System 7 [0] like OS could be neat. But with a terminal included.

It was kinda easy to get your head around the OS just navigating through the system folder. The UI was also more consistent than anything we have these days.

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[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_7

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Re:What have we lost? – Demo of exotic OSes (2021) [video] by guenthert on Friday August 26, 2022 @03:16PM (#32611573)

Not sure if that's old people painting the past rose, but System 7 was not awesome. Cooperative scheduling and lack of memory protection were anachronisms already in 1991.

I think we're talking about different things here. The UI might have been superior in MacOS, but the technical foundations of Unix clearly were. Something OSX tried to (belatedly) reconcile. Nothing stops you from adding an awesome UI on top of Linux (although I'd say UI will always be a matter of personal taste and prior experience).

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Re:What have we lost? – Demo of exotic OSes (2021) [video] by jsrcout on Friday August 26, 2022 @02:04AM (#32603840)

System 7 was so awesome. I was still developing Macintosh GUI software when it came out. It was great to use, and visually pleasing. And as you say, the user interface was consistent, also discoverable, and things did what you expected. Attributes I miss as GUI software inexorably moves into the browser.

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Re:What have we lost? – Demo of exotic OSes (2021) [video] by ralphc on Saturday August 27, 2022 @12:36AM (#32615739)

I have some PPC macs that have OS 9 on them, I love the UI. I look for excuses to use them whenever I can.

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