Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 16th Mar 2009 20:29 UTC
It's a bit of a slow newsday at the moment, so I figured we'd pass the time with something special. Let's take a look at some obscure and/or older user interfaces listed in ToastyTech's GUI gallery, and see if there are any interesting ideas that can be found in those old user interfaces that we would like to see in our modern user interfaces.
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2005-07-06
On the Amiga, when you iconified a program/window/screen the resulting icon was a shrunk version of the original display.
This meant you could monitor the operation of a number of programs at the same time without using a lot of your screen space.
As for the number of icons, even in 1985 the Amiga supported virtual screens/desktops.
Note: these features did not orginally come with the OS, but the free Fred Fish Disks made it easy to get these programs for those who did not have them.