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The accountants where I work felt all the GUI interfaces sucked compared to their terminal. This led us to buy a new iSeries. It will probably last the same 1

The accountants where I work felt all the GUI interfaces sucked compared to their terminal. This led us to buy a new iSeries. It will probably last the same 15 years as the last one.

tonyedgecombe 5y ago
I remember one place I worked where we ripped out all of the dumb terminals on a UNIX system and replaced them with Windows 3.1 PC's with terminal emulation. Productivity was noticeably down after the change.
- zozbot234 5y ago
  > Productivity was noticeably down after the change. Can't play much Solitaire or Minesweeper on a UNIX dumb terminal... The most fun you can have is flying around in a 3D-rendered filesystem.
  - pjmlp 5y ago
    MUDs say hello.
  - pajko 5y ago
    "It's a UNIX system! I know this!"
  - toast0 5y ago
    80x24 is plenty of room for solitaire, and an ok minesweeper (bigger is nice though) If you've got a graphical terminal, like you'd need for your filesystem viewer, then you can do all sorts of stuff, of course.
bluedino 5y ago
They're faster than web based apps that's for sure.
- protomyth 5y ago
  Its amazing how fast they can do things. GUIs just cannot be depended upon to be consistent enough to allow for automatic muscle memory.