Welcome to guidebook, a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing Graphical User Interfaces, as well as various materials related to them. Site last updated on 6th October 2006: two articles about Xerox: “Xerox xooms toward the office of the future” and “The lab that ran away from Xerox”, and a funny essay about... the cow metaphor Seventeen exclusive Apple Lisa posters, free for download: While EPOC officially is named after an epoch – a new era in portable computing – many fans of Psion’s handhelds like to explain it as... Electronic Piece of Cheese. The legendary Windows 95 release, which made many people stand in queues that one memorable August night. As the underlying OS, the GUI also received many improvements, including better use of right mouse button and the Start button. This is how four different operating systems (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X 10.3, Red Hat 9 and Amiga’s Workbench) look while launching. Check out how other GUIs say “coming right up!” The calculator icon changed slightly between Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar and Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, to reflect the latter’s switch to even more metal. Is this the only change? Check for yourself in the big icon chart.
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