Is this statement true or false?
2007-03-08 01:48:32 · 7 answers · asked by Mark W 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
I'm not 100% but I'd say false. I think it was all from DOS
2007-03-08 01:54:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the problem with the question is that it asks if they were *developed* with a GUI, that is, were created or programmed with one. I'd say it was false, because the Graphical User Interface is something that didn't come along until a few years into the computer age, so the oldest operating systems, like DOS, had to be coded by hand in assembly (1s, 0s, or hex).
So I'd say false.
2007-03-08 09:59:19 · answer #2 · answered by Rate 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
FALSE old operating systems originally were character-based systems like DOS and Linux
2007-03-08 09:56:20 · answer #3 · answered by Kristine R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to go with true, depending on how much 'older' you are referring to.
Even in the early 80's apple macintosh had a GUI, I remember using one at school - and after having used radio shack's TSR-80, and my Texas Instruments TI-4A, I was blown away.
Soon afterwards, Bill Gates 'invented' the idea of windows, and Win3.11 came out. Followed by Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2000, XP, and now Vista. Meanwhile Mac continued to release newer and newer versions of its MacO/S.
Dos was, and still is used quite a bit even after the concept of a 'GUI' came out. Other options include Linux, many versions of which are completely free, and allow you to configure your computer to run specific tasks much better than they could ever run on a windows or even a mac based computer.
Recently Mac switched to using Intel processors for its computers too- now it is feasible to start crossing over software (though the idea of running windows on a mac kind of defeats the purpose).
2007-03-08 10:01:27 · answer #4 · answered by joemammysbigguns 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
False,
Unix which was origionally developed at Bell Lab and the Berekley Distribution (BSD) from California started from the command line.
2007-03-08 10:19:54 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on OLD that yous say. If OLD is windows98 that's true older than win98 is win95 and even older is win3.1.
these OSs had GUI.
but OLDESTS like MS-DOS and UNIX Didn't.
2007-03-08 09:54:47 · answer #6 · answered by sunshinemistery 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Developed using a GUI.?"
False, visual programming only came along fairly recently.
2007-03-08 09:58:07 · answer #7 · answered by Jen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋