> a DOS-era POS still offers orders of magnitude better UX than current-era browser POSes, or than most web apps for that matter. As someone who helped with th

> a DOS-era POS still offers orders of magnitude better UX than current-era browser POSes, or than most web apps for that matter. As someone who helped with the transition from crappy text-only DOS interfaces on POSes to graphical interfaces on POSes, I have to disagree. Learning those interfaces was terrible. I don't know where the author gets the idea that even a beginner had no trouble learning them. I worked at NCR during the switchover from the old system to the new one that used graphical representations of things and the new system was way easier to use and for beginners to learn. And that's not just something we felt, we measured it. (Interestingly, it was still DOS-based in its first incarnation, but it was entirely graphical.)