The History of Windows 2.0

Re:The History of Windows 2.0 by pjc50 on Thursday August 24, 2023 @06:10AM (#37247052)

RISCOS was great, although slightly eccentric in a couple of ways:

- "we have a three button mouse, we're going to make use of all of them" as opposed to Apple

- instead of file pickers, saving was done by drag-and-drop: press save and a window pops up with the file, which you drag to a target folder.

The !Application system, an early bundle mechanism, was a simple and effective form of packaging without having to do anything fancy.

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Re:The History of Windows 2.0 by tempaway43355 on Thursday August 24, 2023 @06:20AM (#37247143)

Yeah that drag and drop save was funny. It was the era of 'lets do this using drag and drop just because it looks cool and metaphorical - you are literally PUTTING that file IN that folder - geddit?'

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Re:The History of Windows 2.0 by johnflan on Saturday August 26, 2023 @06:33AM (#37271484)

I don’t agree that it was eccentric, I used these as my first machine and they felt pretty natural. I would also suggest that these interactions weren’t completely standardised at that point.

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