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My local snackbar still has this DOS application where they enter all orders and print receipts etc. It looked so refreshing to see that interface again. The DO
by dncornholio 2y ago
My local snackbar still has this DOS application where they enter all orders and print receipts etc. It looked so refreshing to see that interface again. The DOS font, the blue background, no border radiuses or drop shadows, super snappy and you don't even need a mouse!!
- mystified5016 2y agoLots of older companies still do. When I worked for Sherwin Williams a couple years ago, every aspect of the business was run by some DOS style software on some custom nix OS. Once you spent a little time to memorize the hotkeys, you can do things incredibly* fast. No action is ever more than three or four keystrokes away. Menus and actions appear in ordered lists and never change. If an item is removed, its menu entry is simply blank until something else gets added five years later. Everything is always exactly where it's been since 1980. People want to talk about clean and minimal interfaces, but that art peaked in the 90s. There is not any traditional GUI application anywhere on the market that can compete with the sheer speed and productivity of a DOS application that's been progressively optimized over half a century.