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>but it was a nightmare for a secretary or an executive who saw the computer only as an appliance. MS-DOS contrived to make everything more difficult through it
by voltagex_ 8y ago
>but it was a nightmare for a secretary or an executive who saw the computer only as an appliance. MS-DOS contrived to make everything more difficult through its sheer primitive minimalism
I don't know about that - people have adapted to the GUI because it's the most dominant thing. Microsoft shipped Solitaire to get people used to the mouse and I'm sure I've heard of people who were extremely reluctant to give up TUI or DOS programs that they were extremely efficient in.
- yoz-y 8y agoPeople adapted to GUIs because they were simpler to grok. Text commands are useful and more powerful if you already know them, in a GUI you can actually see all of the buttons you can press. In the end, both are very useful.
- JdeBP 8y agoWhat the headlined article is talking about is not a TUI-GUI split. It is talking about a command-line interface versus other forms of TUIs. As mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, there were plenty of ways of end users interacting with MS/PC/DR-DOS without having to use the command-line.