Apple Knowledge Navigator Video (1987)

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al_borland · 2026-07 · Reference

I assume it’s only a matter of time before we see something like the Knowledge Navigator that Apple envisioned back in 1987. [VIDEO]

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vaxman · 2026-02 · Reference

Maybe have a look at this video from 1987. After sidelining Steve, John Sculley came up with the term PDA and intended to evolve that vision as the mission of Apple, beginning with the break through Apple Newton (that ran on DEC's revolutionary StrongARM chip). [VIDEO] PS: One of the first things Steve did upon returning to Apple a decade later was to KILL OFF Sculley's baby (Apple Newton). As far as its replacement, iPad, that reportedly was developed (but not released) before iPhone, it really has always been a dumpster fire software-wise, not because Apple didn't have capability to do it right, but because of their INTERNAL POLITICS. [ [LINK] ] FWIW, I "sense" that with many of those personalities out of the way now, Apple is finally unifying macOS and i{Pad}OS for the upcoming devices.

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haglin · 2025-04 · Reference

Yeah, Windows 2000 was probably the best operating system Microsoft ever produced. It had no crashes, a snappy/intuitive/sleek user interface, and DirectX support for games. I am currently running Mac OS X because I never liked Windows XP/Vista/10/11. In hindsight, the progress Microsoft made in the ten years between Windows 3.0 (1990) and Windows 2000 seems incredible. They transitioned from a 16-bit shell running on top of DOS to a fully-fledged operating system with a hardware abstraction layer, preemptive multitasking, permissions, a registry, proper device drivers etc. Twenty-five years later, there has been basically no progress. At a minimum, I would have expected something like the Knowledge Navigator [VIDEO]

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