A Multitasking GUI, Circa 1982

A Multitasking GUI, Circa 1982 203

Posted by timothy on Sunday April 03, 2011 @04:07PM from the how-far-we've-come-or-not dept.

autospa points out a post (with video) showing off the multi-tasking abilities of the Blit terminal, developed in 1982 by Rob Pike and Bart Locanthi. Before Windows, before X, and before the Mac (but somewhat later than the Xerox Alto), the Blit terminal provided a multitasking, mouse-driven graphical interface; it took a Unix server on the other side to do the heavy lifting, though.

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Yeah, but... (Score:4, Funny)

by supersocialist ( 884820 ) writes: on Sunday April 03, 2011 @04:18PM (#35701938) Journal

Does it run linux?

In Soviet Russia... (Score:4, Funny)

by blargster ( 239820 ) writes: on Sunday April 03, 2011 @04:26PM (#35701978)

... Linux runs it!

Re:only a few years after, it came to home PCs (Score:4, Funny)

by nurb432 ( 527695 ) writes: on Sunday April 03, 2011 @04:50PM (#35702148) Homepage Journal

Atari did it first and better. So take that!
( Ah the good old days of Amiga/Atari wars, hot on the heels of the 8-bit battles.. but in the end, we all lost )

Blit.app? (Score:5, Funny)

by bennomatic ( 691188 ) writes: on Sunday April 03, 2011 @05:07PM (#35702286) Homepage

If only I could run that on my iPad, I'd be able to multitask on it, too!

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Yeah, but... (Score:4, Funny)

In Soviet Russia... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:only a few years after, it came to home PCs (Score:4, Funny)

Blit.app? (Score:5, Funny)

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