AmigaOS and OS/2?

[desiv]

We (and by "we" I might mean just me) called thos "TUIs" for Textual User Interfaces.
But I don't think we called them that until after someone created and coined the term GUI.

desiv

[desiv]

Just you then, TUI is something else, like ncurses etc. These things sold as graphical workstations, the user interface is not "drawn" using "characters", and yes there was a mouse and you could move/resize the windows.

If it was drawn graphically, then it's definitely a GUI.
The screenshot appeared textual to me, but as it's graphical, I stand corrected.

desiv
p.s.  The "Just you then" bit without a smiley, you still mad that I didn't agree with you on the intuition thing?  ;-)

[desiv]

Hmm.  Is being not drawn by text characters enough to be a GUI.  Does it satisfy the "UI" in GUI ie being a "user interface" in addition to being graphic?  Where are the program icons and pull down menus?  Can I actually make the computer do things by issuing commands with the mouse pointer or do I have to fire up a shell and start issuing text commands? Is this a bit like Ubuntu's  half-arsed GUI implemetation where reliance on terminal commands is fundamental to its operation..

Yes..
Whether or not it's a "good" or "full featured" User Interface doesn't change the fact that it is a user interface.
It does appear to have movable windows, probably mouse reactive.  Although you can have a GUI with only a keyboard.
I don't think (personally) you need to be able to launch an application with a mouse/pointer for something to be a GUI.

It might not be a modern GUI, but it (now that I know it is graphical) looks like a GUI to me.

desiv