Anyone know of any sites and articles on OS development and GUI?

[randyrandall]

I'm geeking out, and I love reading about the development, design decisions and choices in OS development, particularly retro ones (Windows 9x and prior, the Mac OS, etc) The shortfalls, the evolution of the GUI.. a lot. I found some stuff on an early build of the Win95 taskbar, that was interesting..

Quick couple of examples.

http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/gui.ars/2

http://toastytech.com/guis/indexwindows.html

http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/win31

And theres a website somewhere with tales of the Mac creation etc.

Any suggestions for good reads?

[unclejun]

You may find "The BeOS Bible" interesting.
And if you want to try old betas of windows and macos, you should go here:
http://win3x.org/

[randyrandall]

Cheers for the links =)

[unclejun]

I have one or two other links, I'll send you a PM.

[Johnny]

I probably have some stuff, from college. I'll look for it this weekend.

[mairsil]

If you have access to it through a school, start browsing the ACM Digital Library, particularly the SIGCHI/UIST conferences and TOCHI papers.

[retro]

I was going to say Chicago build 58 will show you an early start button, but you seem to have found that ;-)

Don't forget the mad sitcom thing Microsoft made for the Windows 95 launch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GWQgb015Lc

There were tons of articles about early versions of Linux, so you should find something on that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVTWCPoUt8w

Not a lot of information, but this is a nice video on GNU by Stephen Fry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwlDZIDGoc0

[babu]

If you want to know of development, this sites got some great resources to get you started:

http://www.osdev.org/
http://www.osdever.net/

I also bought this book some years ago I guess it got some historical stuff too:
http://www.amazon.com/Operating-Syst.../dp/0136386776

[kammedo]

Dig into the old Unix OS's system guides and you'll learn how modern computing works ;)

[ccovell]

Here are a couple where a few old-timers discuss GUI action CHOICES:

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/...ndex.html#parc (Xerox Star demonstration)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ6ng1_TMN4 (Star promotional video)

[nanoseq]

That Win3x site is a goldmine. Do you know of any sites like that for vintage Mac apps? I'd kill for a copy of old Adobe software, Office, Macromedia stuff, etc.