On: Historical workstation desktop interface screensho...

[juujian]

That's very cool! I just wish whoever captured those screenshots hadn't "posed" the computer for these screenshots. I am more curious how people would actually use them, not what these interfaces look like when you purposely try to show of their capabilities.

[catiopatio → juujian]

Maybe some other folks familiar with the period can chime in, but from my recollection, it honestly wasn’t that different from today.

A lot of the apps used then are still around, or have been succeeded by something very similar.

Maybe the biggest difference was the prevalence of emulation in the mid-to-late 90s, as the UNIX workstation was losing out to desktop PCs and Macs.

If you looked at my SparcStation at the time, I’d have been running Apple’s Macintosh Emulation Environment next to everything else: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Application_Enviro...