In the Beginning...was the Command Line
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line is an essay by Neal Stephenson which was originally published online in 1999 and later made available in book form (November 1999, ISBN 0380815931). The essay is a commentary on why the proprietary operating systems business is unlikely to remain profitable in the future because of competition from free software. It also analyzes the...
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Neal Stephenson
Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his speculative fiction works, which have been variously categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk,...
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Though some of the arguments in this essay are outdated with the release of OS X, this is still an interesting narrative on the development of the GUI. Worth a read for the context it gives to designing interfaces.