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The complicate GUI is simply a visualized version of CLI utilities of the day, which were no less complicated. I was thinking about this just the other day, an
by esafak 1y ago
The complicate GUI is simply a visualized version of CLI utilities of the day, which were no less complicated.
I was thinking about this just the other day, and there was one from the late 80s that had scores of parameters, but I could not remember its name. I think it was an `ls` type utility.
- esafak 1y agoI finally remembered: PocketD(irectory), by Jeff Rollason. https://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/simtelnet/msdos/sysutl/pock53.zip https://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/simteln... I used https://www.neilb.net/doswasmx/ https://www.neilb.net/doswasmx/ to run it, generating this screenshot of its CLI: https://imgur.com/a/6i91Vyz https://imgur.com/a/6i91Vyz And that's just all they could fit on one page.