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I'd love to see this sort of design history, but for old terminal/text-mode GUIs (TUIs?). I'm too young to have experienced it outside of the odd DOS cash desk
by mjaniczek 1y ago
I'd love to see this sort of design history, but for old terminal/text-mode GUIs (TUIs?). I'm too young to have experienced it outside of the odd DOS cash desk at a grocery store. Does any book/website exist about these? VT220 library systems etc...
- WillAdams 1y agoI believe it gets discussed a bit in some Cobol programming texts and ISTR it being discussed in _The Viewport Technician_: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4541460-the-viewport-technician https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4541460-the-viewport-tec... Usually though it was a direct display of the program state for a given task, which was part of what made it so efficient --- the task needed to be simplified down into chunks which would fit on/make sense when viewed as text on a text screen viewport.