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People 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
by yoz-y 8y ago
People 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.