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>I also did library searches, and they were insanely slow, and prone to the exact same "don't click while it loads" Not the person you asked, but around 2002 a
by simion314 7y ago
>I also did library searches, and they were insanely slow, and prone to the exact same "don't click while it loads"
Not the person you asked, but around 2002 at my university library the computers were running a DOS like application, on the top part of the screen there were printed the commands and you can put your search and hit enter, after a few years it was replaced with a Win98 like GUI, you had to open the app if someone else closed it, then use the mouse to find the right dropdowns and select the options then input the search term then click Search. Before you would type something like "a=John Smith" hit enter and it would show all the books of that author.
The problem with us developers is that most of the time we are not heavy users of the applications we create, we create since test projects and simple test to check the application but our users might use the application many hours a day and all the little issues would add up.