A short extract of Neal Stephenson's seminal essay has been doing the rounds on HackerNews.

Unix - The Hole Hawg
THE HOLE HAWG OF OPERATING SYSTEMSOK, fine, so let's go with it ( Read more... )

In fact, there are two free versions: one for Classic MacOS, made freeware when WordPerfect discontinued Mac support, and a native Linux version, for which Corel offered a free, fully-working, demo version ( Read more... )

[Repurposed from a Reddit comment here.]

Non everyone hates "jaggies" with a burning passion, or loves anti-aliasing. Well-designed GUIs for relatively low-res displays, even monochrome ones, can and did look great, and arguably, the fact that modern GUIs tend to need antialiasing, truecolour, transparency, scalable vector icons and so on is ( Read more... )