GEM Desktop 1.2 looks sooooooo like the ancient Apple operating systems. I first saw this on a friends' parents computer and was quite astonished why computers may look like that. I was very used to Windows/DOS back then.

I am also glad to have switched to Linux in 2004 already. Once you have been using Linux for a while, whenever I use windows I am annoyed at how slow it is. Just file copy operations alone and then billion excuses windows developers make, trying to copsplain why it is so slow. When I have to backup 30GB, I don't want an explanation why it is slow - I simply use what is faster. And that's just one advantage of many more Linux has. (I use the commandline most of the time though, so KDE and GNOME are IMO just pointless eyecandy these days.)

Deeply nostalgic! Thanks for sharing.

I love how little df has changed since 1985.

That brings back memories from pre press days and the SGI Indigo machines. They did some heavy lifting for the time.

where's desqview? I ran my first BBS on that back in the 90s before switching over to OS/2 Warp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview

Sometime I wish time goes slower

The Cambrian period of operating systems and GUIs.

Amazing resource!

xfm from the first Slackware print, I really liked that file manager. But these days it fails to work. I tied many years ago to get it work but failed :(

"We have learned nothing in 10,000 years."