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User Interfaces: Christian Paul Macatangay Bsit - Iii Freeelechci

The document discusses the evolution of user interfaces from the 1950s to the 2000s, including early batch processing with punched cards, command-line interfaces requiring memorized commands in the 1960s, the development of the WIMP paradigm of windows, icons, menus and pointers in the 1970s by researchers at Xerox PARC, text user interfaces in the 1980s, Windows 3.1 becoming a popular DOS shell in the 1990s with features like TrueType fonts and multimedia, and Windows XP introducing product activation and support for 64-bit processors in the 2000s.

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User Interfaces: Christian Paul Macatangay Bsit - Iii Freeelechci

The document discusses the evolution of user interfaces from the 1950s to the 2000s, including early batch processing with punched cards, command-line interfaces requiring memorized commands in the 1960s, the development of the WIMP paradigm of windows, icons, menus and pointers in the 1970s by researchers at Xerox PARC, text user interfaces in the 1980s, Windows 3.1 becoming a popular DOS shell in the 1990s with features like TrueType fonts and multimedia, and Windows XP introducing product activation and support for 64-bit processors in the 2000s.

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Christian Paul Macatangay BSIT – III FREEELECHCI

USER INTERFACES

1950s
Batch processing: punched cards used to feed programs
into the computer, results come back hours later.

1960s
Command-line interfaces require typing memorized
commands.

1970s
Researchers at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (many from SRI)
develop WIMP paradigm (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers)
Christian Paul Macatangay BSIT – III FREEELECHCI

1980s
Text user interfaces, retronym coined after
GUIs.

1990s
Windows 3.1 – Widely popular DOS shell: TrueType
fonts, multimedia, standardized common dialog
boxes

2000s
Windows XP – Product activation, GUI
enhancements, support for 64-bit processors.

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