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So? I remember a large bookshop in my hometown in which each section of the store had a terminal with DOS-like interface to their internal database. Employees w

by lqet 8y ago

So? I remember a large bookshop in my hometown in which each section of the store had a terminal with DOS-like interface to their internal database. Employees were able to use it blazingly fast, and they still used it a few years ago. Except for security concerns, why should newer software automatically be better?

rightbyte 8y ago
Old crud apps ware probably the prime of usability. These hotel booking systems with green text terminals and hot keys for everything. The video store where I grew up had a similar text based interface to some floppy located database for rentals. Amazingly fast and some override button to force invalid entries when someone else had messed up or something was registered wrong. Binaries run straight from a floppy with no fancy OS to interrupt the very simple yet manually tedious things it does. Many apps today are way over cooked for what they do.