Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Tales of GUIs and OSes

January 1983 Lisa Office System Cooperative multitasking, virtual memory.
January 1984 System 1.0 (Mac OS 1) A simplified version of Lisa system. Icons were designed by Dr. Susan Kare, the designer dogcow, Happy Mac and Command Key. She also designed the icon of Notepad.exe and many other icons in Windows and the cards in solitaire game. 255 characters long file name, finder support 63 characters. Single task, menu on top.
May 1984 System 1.1 (Mac OS 1.1, System Software 0.1) Performance improvement. Ability to start certain programs at the time system startup.
June 1984 X1 X1 was originated from "W".
January 1985 X6
April 1985 System 2.0 (Mac OS 2.0, System Software 0.3) "New Folder" command. "List" view. Shutdown command. Eject disks by dragging them to trash. "MiniFinder" introduced.
September 1985 System 2.1 (Mac OS 2.1) HFS introduced. 31 characters file name.
September 1985 X9 Color. MIT License.
November 1985 Windows 1.01 Support multitasking from the beginning, thus menus on each windows.
January 1986 System3.0 (Mac OS 3.0, System Software 0.7) Disck Cache was introduced.
January 1986 System 3.3 (Mac OS 3.3, System Software 2.0) Introduced AppleShare.
March 1987 System 4.0 (Mac OS 4.0, System Software 2.01) AppleTalk was introduced.
September 1987 X11 The contemporary protocol of X.
October 1987 System 4.2 (Mac OS 4.2, System Software 5.0 ) Color menu! Cooperative multitasking.
November 1987 Windows 2.0 Windows can be overlapped. "Plug n play" function in school version. Minimize and maximize idea.
April 1988 System 6 (Mac OS 6, System Software 6.0) Last Mac OS written in assembly. 24 bits memory access.
May 1988 Windows 2.1 286/386 Dos programs running in a window.
October 1988 NEXTSTEP 0.8  
October 1988 OS/2 1.1  
September 1989 NEXTSTEP 1.0 Mach 2.5, BSD 4.3. Objective C, Interface builder. Display Postscript based GUI.
May 1990 Windows 3.0 Redesigned control panel with Mac style.
September 1990 NEXTSTEP 2.0 CD ROM support. Color monitor. Spell checker.
May 1991 System 7 (Mac OS 7, System Software 7.0) 32bit. Built in cooperative multitasking. Desktop folder. Applescript. TrueType. Trash won't be automatically emptied. File sharing via AppleTalk. Alias. Solid multiscreen support.
March 1992 Windows 3.1 TrueType.
March 1992 OS/2 2.0  
September 1992 XFree86 1.0 First version of XFree86. X11R5.
September 1992 NEXTSTEP 3.0 Base of OS X.
July 1993 Windows NT 3.1 32bit. Unicode support. Supported X86, Alpha and MIPS.
August 1994 XFree86 3.0 X11R6.
September 1994 Windows NT 3.5 Added PowerPC support.
October 1994 OS/2 Warp 3.0  
May 1995 Windows NT 3.51 NTFS 1.2.
August 1995 Windows 95 32/16bit hybrid. Long file name. New user interface. "Plug n Play". Extensive use of right key click.
July 1996 Windows NT 4.0 Windows 95 style GUI.
July 1996 OpenSTEP 4.0 Runs on SunOS, HP-UX, Windows NT.
September 1996 OS/2 Warp 4.0  
November 1996 Windows CE 1.0  
November 1996 Windows 95 SR2.1 USB and AGP support.
May 1997 XFree86 3.3 XFree86 Acceleration Architecture.
July 1997 System 8 (Mac OS 8, System Software 8.0) HFS+ file system. 255 UTF-16 characters file name in system, Finder only support 31 characters. Multi threaded finder.
September 1997 Windows CE 2.0  
December 1997 Windows 95 SR2.5 Better USB/AGP support. IE4 and DirectX 5. Active Desktop.
January 1998 System 8.1 Support for USB.
June 1998 Windows 98 FAT32.
July 1998 KDE 1.0 KOM/OpenParts, kdm, KMail, krn.
February 1999 KDE 1.1
March 1999 GNOME 1.0
May 1999 Windows 98SE IE5, DirectX6.1.
February 2000 Windows2000 Solid Windows NT kernel, new interface. NTFS 3.0
March 2000 Freedesktop.org launched.
June 2000 Windows CE 3.0  
September 2000 Windows Me IE5.5, Mediaplayer 7. Windows 2000 style interface.
October 2000 KDE 2.0 KParts, aRts, Sycoca.
March 2001 Mac OS X 10.0 Quartz/PDF support. Cocoa. Aqua. Drop shadows. Services menu. 255 characters file name in Finder. Extensive use of unicode.
February 2001 KDE 2.1
August 2001 KDE 2.2
September 2001 Mac OS X 10.1 Better CD/DVD burning. DVD playback. Better printer support. Became useful.
October 2001 Windows XP NTFS 3.1, new interface. Icons designed by iconfactory.
January 2002 Windows CE 4.0  
April 2002 KDE3.0 Audits, Xinerama.
June 2002 GNOME 2.0 GTK2.
August 2002 Mac OS X 10.2 Windows networks support. Quartz Extreme. Rendezvous (Bonjour). CUPS. Happy Mac was replaced.
November 2002 Mac OS X 10.2.2 Journaling in HFS+.
January 2003 KDE3.1.
September 2003 GNOME 2.4
October 2003 Mac OS X 10.3 Brushed metal. Exposé. Fax. X11. *.doc support. Fast User Switching. Automatic file defragmentation and hotfile clustering. HFSX. FileVault.
January 2004 X.Org Foundation formed
February 2004 KDE3.2
March 2004 GNOME 2.6. Nautilus update.
April 2004 X11R6.7. First X.org release.
August 2004 KDE 3.3
August 2004 Windows XP SP2 Better security features.
March 2005 KDE 3.4
April 2005 Mac OS X 10.4 ACL. Spotlight. Automator. Smart Folders. Sync Services. VoiceOver. Core Image. Core Video.
November 2005 KDE 3.5
December 2005 X11R6.9/7.0 EXA.
January 2006 xgl Open to public.
February 2006 Compiz Initial release.
May 2006 X11R7.1 KDrive, AIGLX.
Semptember 2006 Beryl Beryl forked from Compiz.
January 2007 Windows Vista Windows Aero. Windows Flip 3D. Windows Shell. Instant Search. Windows Sidebar. IE7. Media Player 11. Backup and Restore center. Windows Mail. Windows Calendar. Windows Photo Gallery. Windows DVD maker/movie maker. Shadow Copy. Parental Control. Windows sideshow. Speech recognition. DX10.
February 2007 X11R7.2 XCB.
March 2007 Beryl and Compiz merge Compiz Fusion.
September 2007 X11R7.3 DTrace, input hogplug, output hotplug.
October 2007 Mac OS X 10.5 Updated Finder. Dock with Stack. Time Machine. Spaces. Quick Look. Boot Camp. Core Animation. DTrace.
January 2008 KDE 4.0

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