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>Perhaps I’ll update this article in 3 months with my experiences and describe any limitations I ran into… or if I gave up and switched to something else. And?
by LVB 5y ago
>Perhaps I’ll update this article in 3 months with my experiences and describe any limitations I ran into… or if I gave up and switched to something else.
And? BTW, I've really enjoyed all of your deep dives into DOS software. There is a nostalgia element for sure, but I still think many elements of those UIs were incredibly efficient (e.g. the Lotus 1-2-3 menus system you described) even compared to today.
- taviso 5y agoThanks! I still use 123 basically daily, It's really grown on me and I can use it very efficiently. I wrote a display driver to fix a few quirks when using it in a modern terminal (https://github.com/taviso/lotusdrv https://github.com/taviso/lotusdrv), but once that was working I don't really have any complaints, it really works beautifully.
- bombcar 5y agoThe HP Palmtop was amazingly powerful for its time - because it came with 123. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_95LX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_95LX It's arguably still better to this day at being a portable spreadsheet computer than phones.