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I used to use UI's like the ones he talks about. And yes, you can get quick at it. But OMG they took forever to learn. And if there wer more functions than cou

I used to use UI's like the ones he talks about. And yes, you can get quick at it. But OMG they took forever to learn. And if there wer more functions than could map onto function keys that would fit in the bottom row, then stuff got hidden. Cue people yelling across the room "how do I get into the stock reorder menu?","F3 for stock, then F2 for management, then F5 for reorder", "thanks!" (no help window, or tooltips, or anything). This isn't "easy", and it's certainly not discoverable. And it's only fast if you know exactly what you're doing.

chosenbreed37 6y ago
> This isn't "easy", and it's certainly not discoverable. And it's only fast if you know exactly what you're doing. True. Would it be fair to assume that users would work with a subset of the commands available? If so, once they got used to those it would have been plain sailing 80%-90% of the time. If I'm not mistaken I've seen a few those DOS programs recently in different settings. The folks using them seemed to be getting along just fine.