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Scrotos wrote:Is that CDE? Because everyone thought CDE was the bomb and it was a total pile of crap. I had to use that on an old Sun pizza box back in the day.
CUA seems to be more like a "this is how this stuff should operate" not an interface in and of itself. I'd rather read the cliff notes version than any IBM doc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_User_Access
trackerben wrote:But you need to know Its true name, for it was called CUA, which gave rise MS Windows, which begat X Windows.
BIF wrote:I must say that I blame IBM a little bit for the declining mainframe era. Many opportunities missed. Don't get me started!
just brew it! wrote:What goes around comes around. The "terminals" are just wireless, small enough to fit in your pocket, and affordable by Joe Consumer now.
Captain Ned wrote:Classic Shell claims to support Win8 RTM. Not anything I'm ever going to test. That said, it does a bang-up job at returning Win7 to the One True Windows Interface (a/k/a Win2K).
trackerben wrote:Scrotos wrote:Is that CDE? Because everyone thought CDE was the bomb and it was a total pile of crap. I had to use that on an old Sun pizza box back in the day.
CUA seems to be more like a "this is how this stuff should operate" not an interface in and of itself. I'd rather read the cliff notes version than any IBM doc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_User_Access
Your slim pizza must have been one of those DEC Alpha cores capable of running Windows NT3. My company should never have sold our development unit, these are rare consoles which excited our best developers back then.
just brew it! wrote:trackerben wrote:But you need to know Its true name, for it was called CUA, which gave rise MS Windows, which begat X Windows.
Minor nit: X Windows isn't a GUI; it is the lower-level protocol and primitives on top of which which most *NIX GUIs are implemented. It actually pre-dates CUA and the first version of MS Windows by a year or two.
Captain Ned wrote:Classic Shell claims to support Win8 RTM. Not anything I'm ever going to test. That said, it does a bang-up job at returning Win7 to the One True Windows Interface (a/k/a Win2K).
ordskiweicz wrote:Another thing. Win 8 told me to disable my AV software. It uses Defender by default. I had not heard this part.
PerfectCr wrote:I just bought Start 8. Like it very much. Boots to desktop perfectly for me and works otherwise very well. Happy to not have to use Metro UI at all.
just brew it! wrote:I was wondering the same thing. I mean, unless you have multiple monitors and like to shut down your computer all the time, I don't see what the big deal is.I have to ask though: So what are the advantages of Win8 + Start 8 over just sticking with Win7?
PerfectCr wrote:just brew it! wrote:I have to ask though: So what are the advantages of Win8 + Start 8 over just sticking with Win7?
Faster boot/shut down, and all the security and other under hood enhancements of Win 8?