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The video is to display what an expert can do with it, if I understand correctly. In undergrad, I worked nights in a warehouse where most things were managed b
by jrumbut 3y ago
The video is to display what an expert can do with it, if I understand correctly.
In undergrad, I worked nights in a warehouse where most things were managed by a very complicated TUI program.
The learning curve was quite steep. What someone could do after 6 months of using it was completely different to what a beginner without a trainer could do. You wouldn't be able to see what is good about it by just setting it up on your own computer and playing with it (and of course you probably don't have a busy warehouse to manage).
- mixmastamyk 3y agoMay be so, but Turbo Vision was not a unique interface paradigm. It worked just like any CUA application of the era, with dialogs and widgets, tab/funcion keys etc. Its "raison d'être."
- kragen 3y agoperhaps you intend to assert that turbo vision implemented the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access standard, or made it easy for applications to do so if so, that's news to me
- mixmastamyk 3y agoYes it did to a large extent, although I think some of the function key defaults were a bit different, probably from older Borland apps. But by and large converging on a singular CUA/MDI interface from Mac OS, Windows, IBM, Motif, QBasic, and TVision, in the late 80s. While not everyone got there 100% it did help tremendously that one could sit at a Mac/Win/Dos PC, Unix Workstation, or IBM mainframe and understand the application level interface immediately. We're sadly losing that as "smart" people decide to hide things from "dumb" people in terms of interface design.