What was the interface called to access files before Windows was created?

Question

It usually had a picture of an office. You clicked on pictures to access folders and files.

Answer 1

In the Microsoft world the interface used to access files before Windows 1.0 was created was MS DOS which was a CLI (command line interface) no pictures to access folders and files.

However many other computers had what your talking about, a GUI (Graphical User Interface) prior to Windows including MacOS, I believe the first GUI was developed at Xerox and called PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) MacOS was modeled after this and later Apple bought the rights to it from Xerox.

Answer 2

Before GUI (Graphical User Interface), you had a command line in which you typed in commands to access all the stuff you needed. Office and pictures... hmm... isn't that the dumbest project of all created by Microsoft called Microsoft Bob? But that was way after Windows was created.

Answer 3

Are you talking about the file manager in windows 2, 3, 3.1 and 3.11?

Answer 4

I hope your not referring to BOB. Microsoft's attempt at a GUI. That OS bombed big time.

Before Windows, there was only command-line DOS, or utility programs like menu master where you could preset certain programs to run when you pressed a certain key