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by dreamcompiler 3130 days ago
I'm guessing you're not very old. Interleaf on an original MC68000 Sun workstation. The Symbolics Genera IDE. Pretty much every app on an Amiga or Mac II circa 1990. Most of these apps were more responsive and more capable than Electron with single cores and 1/1000 the resources. Making clickable animated widgets on a windowed screen that tightly integrate with the OS doesn't (or shouldn't) take much software. But we seem to have forgotten that.