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A Family Tree - history of Shells

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November 15, 2005 8:01:17 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums

An interesting display in treeform of 'all' the Windows shells [GUI Interfaces], past and present.

Knock your socks off...

http://desktopian.org/shelltree.html

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Reply #1 November 15, 2005 8:26:21 PM
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Tin_Omen's site used to be a daily stop for me. Hasn't updated in forever unfortunately.
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Reply #2 November 15, 2005 9:04:07 PM
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That tree needs preview pics
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Reply #3 November 15, 2005 9:22:01 PM
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that tree hasnt been updated in a looong long while, many shells have evolved into something else (litestep: 0.24.7, 0.25, xstep, sidestep; bb4win: bblean, xoblite; sharpe), and others have been created (carbon lokai, metro, ishell (emergedesktop), NeX to name some).
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Reply #4 November 15, 2005 9:58:51 PM
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sryo ....true....but at least it shows the early stuff....and that can be educational to those new to skinning...
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Reply #5 November 15, 2005 10:03:53 PM
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Man...I loved Norton Desktop. Had it from the first release to the end (3.0 I think) I was devestated when 95 wouldn't support it. My all time favorite was a DOS front end called QDOS. Single key, letter driven menu. Today's Drag and Drop couldn't keep up.

Thanks for the link Jafo.
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Reply #6 November 16, 2005 7:34:02 AM
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wow brings back some memories!! Heh sometimes I still use blackbox for windows. Its amazing how much has changed tho. I started on the IBM PC Jr when PCs first came out. Text interfaces unless you had time to write some sort of text based UI. C and assembly language programming.. heheheh it was a bit fun! I forget exactly who, but there was a BBS that had a sort of graphical UI back around the late 80's maybe 1990 or so... ah well.
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Reply #7 November 16, 2005 12:31:23 PM
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Yeah, Norton Navigator has been the best graphical filemanager there has ever been. Even Total Commander isn't to me what that tool was.
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Reply #8 November 16, 2005 1:19:55 PM
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I don't about many of the apps listed, but NextStart, and HoverDesk aren't shells. I know there were a few people experimenting with running HvD as a shell, but nothing came of it.
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Reply #9 November 16, 2005 1:34:42 PM
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I forget exactly who, but there was a BBS that had a sort of graphical UI back around the late 80's maybe 1990 or so

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Reply #10 November 16, 2005 4:14:36 PM
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only one shell really counts.....LiteStep

uncontested best
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Reply #11 November 16, 2005 5:53:59 PM
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only one shell really counts.....LiteStep
  ....ah, Phil, yer biased...
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Reply #12 November 16, 2005 8:25:24 PM
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that 'tree' needs a 'tog'

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Reply #13 November 16, 2005 10:23:40 PM
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According to that genealogy, 1999 was a pretty happenin' year. Didn't realize so many of what are considered the "mature" shells (LiteStep, Talisman, Aston) had their roots so recently.
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Reply #14 November 17, 2005 9:30:34 AM
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The links to the GUI galleries at the bottom of the page all lead to microsoft.com??? Does anyone know of good, current links to some of these types of galleries?
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Reply #15 November 17, 2005 2:14:13 PM
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HA! yep that was it... Cant believe how long it has been!!
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