[endgame]

And flat UI elements. And you interact with a single program that takes up most of the screen. The more things change...

[Stratoscope]

Try launching a few programs (double-click the floppy disk after each one to open the MS-DOS Executive again) and then move them around.

It's a tiled window manager!

[kristopolous]

overlapping windows was actually a challenging problem within the constraints of the old hardware.

[bonzini]

Actually it was due to legal worries that Windows 1 only supported tiling. In Windows 2 they ignored the worries and Apple promptly sued.

[technofiend]

There's a million links on that, this is one of the first with names and dates: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=A_Rich_Neighbor_N...

[amyjess]

And when people ask me why I can't stand flat UI, I have to tell them that it reminds me of the UIs everybody outgrew in the 80s and early 90s because they were ugly as sin.

Flat UI just reminds me of Windows pre-95 and Mac OS pre-8, which I've never found aesthetically pleasing.