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Most youngsters today take for granted the mouse based operating systems that have been the norm since the 80s. The mouse is the biggest advance that I can think of in the evolution of the home computer.
When I was a kid the PCs everyone wanted to have were the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64. These were a basically a bulky keyboard that plugged into your TV set, and a tape player to store and load data, programs, or games. You could hardly call it an operating system; there wasn't even a mouse and it was nothing like Windows XP or OS X. When you bought a game for these systems, on the back it had instructions of how to load. As far as I can remember, I think you had to type in "Run" or something and press play.
The Importance of the Mouse
My first memories of using a mouse were when using a Commodore Amiga 500 - one of the hottest gaming computers of the mid to late 80s. The Amiga did a primitive OS but it could only display a few colours and so it looked pretty rubbish. However, this was the first steps away from having to type in code to operate a computer. The mouse is much more intuitive that computer code and made a big impact in helping to popularizing the home PC.
When I was at University, a friend of mine called told me an interesting story about the invention of the mouse. His dad worked at Xerox and had said the company was the inventor of the mouse. Then Steve Jobs saw the device and decided that he was going to incorporate it into his Apple computers. I don't know what kind of legal proceedings ensued, but the patent for the mouse has to be one of the lucrative ever devised. There must have been billions of the things produced.
The introduction of the mouse was really the dawn of the operating system as we know it. Microsoft produced Windows 3.1 which was pretty ugly even in those days. The Apple OS 7 was far more good looking and intuitive to use. The problem was that the software on Windows was really suited to business use. The Apple computer catered for the graphics inclined - becoming the platform for desktop publishing, and graphic design. The two platforms were like chalk and cheese, you couldn't even exchange a floppy disk between them, they had their own printers, and you could forget about networking them. Very slowly over the next 20 years the gap closed, and in 2006 Apple computers started to use Intel CPUs and could even run Windows.
Microsoft Windows has always been playing catch-up to Mac OS in terms of good looks. Even with the latest Vista, it still looks inferior to OS X Leopard - but that might just be something to do with Bill Gates taste.
In the Pipeline...
Looking into the future, there are some very interesting potential avenues for new interface devices. The mouse was the break-through device for operating systems in the 80s, and in 2007 the touch screen could well follow in its footsteps. The iPhone has done away with mice, trackballs, and keyboards, and replaced them with a touch screen. Although typing is a little tricky with no sensation of a button press, it has forged a new territory in the evolution of the operating system. It delivers much greater portability and convenience - something that is bound to get better and better in forthcoming years.
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Rashumon - word processor
Rashumon - by Michael Haephrati
Today it is quite obvious to most of the computer users to open a word processor or a text editor and be able to perform various tasks such as inserting / editing text with different fonts, colors and styles, and combine them with graphics, photos, etc.
When I started working on Rashumon, nothing of these functionalities were available, not as part of the operating system level and not even as a 3rd party GUI library.
The Amiga computer was one of the first graphic personal computers, which unlike the Mac of these days, supported colors.
Rashumon was the first multi-lingual graphic word processor, developed for Amiga computers back in 1989. I have developed this software after realizing that there aren't any word processors allowing the creation of documents which can be printed the same way they are shown on screen. This approach is referred to as WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get).
In these days, there weren't any graphic SDK to be used with the programming environment, so such had to be created. Functionalities such as TextBox, Slider, Files List, were all needed to be programmed which is what I did.
Some of the neat features of Rashumon:
Multiple selections
- Table generator
- Multiple key maps support (up to 5 simultaneously)
- Search and replace includes color, style and font filters
- Multi-lingual string gadgets to be used for creating and renaming files, drawers, etc.
- Imports and exports multilingual ASCII files from and to PC and MAC
- Ultra fast screen updating and scrolling
- IFF graphics support (import and export)
- Direct access to 255 characters of each font
The company which developed Rashumon was HarmonySoft, which I have established in 1989, and our slogan was: Creative Software for Creative People.
Here is a video showing how Rashumon worked.
One of the revolutionary features Rashumon had was being able to combine several languages, including opposed direction languages, such as Hebrew / Arabic and English. New Hebrew and Arabic fonts were created especially for Rashumon. Rashumon was protected by the AmigaHASP which I have also invented and sold to Aladdin.
Today you can still download Rashumon from this link. In order to run it, you will need either an Amiga computer or an Amiga emulator.
About the Author
Michael Haephrati was born in 1964. An inventor, Hi-Tech specialist, music composer and a father.
Will there ever be another operating system that can outsell Windows?
I know there is Mac OS and Linux. But they are such a small amount. In fact, Microsoft bought part of Apple to keep them alive. And Linux is for the computer savvy. Will there be another choice besides Windows? I wish Amiga OS was still around.
As far as I see it Windows will always be dominant. MACS if anything are starting to lose ground to Linux.
Microsoft have a stonking operating system up and coming in the shape of Windows 7. Currently I am working with (Build 6801) and it is quite outstanding.
Linux is not for the computer savvy only, this is a common misconception as there was a time when Linux was complex, but those days are long gone.
If you are curious about Linux try out some LIVE distros. This means you can run Linux from a CD without touching your Hard Drive.
You download the ISO. image of the Linux distro. of your choice then you need to create a Bootable CD from the ISO. This can easily be done using Nero Burning ROM or similar software.
Here are some user friendly Linux distros. worth considering
Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna
http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_daryna.php
Linux Mint 5 Elyssa
http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_elyssa.php
PCLinuxOS 2007
http://www.pclinuxos.com/
SimplyMEPIS 7.0
http://www.mepis.org/
Mandriva 2009
http://www.mandriva.com/
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