Good points. >Heck, a lot of retail TUIs still run on them Yes, you still see them in general stores, etc. in India and I bet in other countries as well. The

Good points. >Heck, a lot of retail TUIs still run on them Yes, you still see them in general stores, etc. in India and I bet in other countries as well. The speed of data entry and operations of those apps by operators well-versed with using them, blows any GUI apps our of the water. Not that I dislike GUIs, they are fun to build and use, but talking here about business benefits. And of course it is not all black and white, there are other benefits of GUIs too. Some were/are written in compiled XBASE versions like Clipper, so speed of loading and running (apart from speed of operator use) is good too.