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RISC OS was so awesome.

Windows looked like a dinosaur compared to this at the time



It's still a dinosaur in functional gui features. Separation of document window and app. Resize, move, scroll, click and type in windows without bringing them to the front of the stack. A send to back of stack button. Drag and drop load and save. Menus you can select and item and keep the menu open.


> Drag and drop load and save

This.

Open/Save dialogues simply aren't necessary with a proper desktop metaphor. Shame no-one uses them any more.


ROX brings some of RISC OS goodness to Linux/Unix desktops BTW.




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