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Sorry, but this 65 yo grey-beard disagrees. A TUI to me, back in the 80s/90s, was something that ran in the terminal and was almost always ncurses-based. This

Sorry, but this 65 yo grey-beard disagrees. A TUI to me, back in the 80s/90s, was something that ran in the terminal and was almost always ncurses-based. This was back when I was still using ADM-3A serial terminals, none of that new-fangled PCs stuff.

KPGv2 8mo ago
We might've been caught on different parts of the wave. I checked Ngrams out of curiosity https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=TUI&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=TUI&year_start... Basically it was never used, then it was heavily used, and then never used, and then in the early 00s it took off again. That'd explain why you used it, I never did, and now young kids are.
- marssaxman 8mo ago
  Thanks for looking that up! It makes sense, of course - the line starts to drop in 1984, with the release of the Macintosh, and hits a trough around the launch of Windows 95. It's not a term I recall hearing at all when I started using computers in the mid-'80s - all that mattered back then was "shiny new GUI, or the clunky old thing?" I really thought it was a retroneologism when I first heard it, maybe twenty years ago.
- rjmunro 8mo ago
  I don't think that search is very valid - the TUI group travel companies are likely much more mentioned than Terminal User Interface. They are pretty big around the world and have an airline, cruises, hotels etc.
  - CRConrad 7mo ago
    Yeah, but Preussag only changed its name to Touristik Union International in 1997[1], so I think the user interface interpretation clearly predates the travel agency one. ___ [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUI_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUI_Group
bombcar 8mo ago
Exactly. A CLI is a single line - like edlin. A TUI takes over all or most of the screen, like edit or vi or emacs. Norton Commander (or Midnight Commander) is probably the quintessential example of a powerful TUI; it can do things that would be quite hard to replicate as easily in a CLI.

KPGv2 8mo ago

We might've been caught on different parts of the wave. I checked Ngrams out of curiosity https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=TUI&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=TUI&year_start... Basically it was never used, then it was heavily used, and then never used, and then in the early 00s it took off again. That'd explain why you used it, I never did, and now young kids are.

marssaxman 8mo ago
Thanks for looking that up! It makes sense, of course - the line starts to drop in 1984, with the release of the Macintosh, and hits a trough around the launch of Windows 95. It's not a term I recall hearing at all when I started using computers in the mid-'80s - all that mattered back then was "shiny new GUI, or the clunky old thing?" I really thought it was a retroneologism when I first heard it, maybe twenty years ago.
rjmunro 8mo ago
I don't think that search is very valid - the TUI group travel companies are likely much more mentioned than Terminal User Interface. They are pretty big around the world and have an airline, cruises, hotels etc.
- CRConrad 7mo ago
  Yeah, but Preussag only changed its name to Touristik Union International in 1997[1], so I think the user interface interpretation clearly predates the travel agency one. ___ [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUI_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUI_Group

bombcar 8mo ago

Exactly. A CLI is a single line - like edlin. A TUI takes over all or most of the screen, like edit or vi or emacs. Norton Commander (or Midnight Commander) is probably the quintessential example of a powerful TUI; it can do things that would be quite hard to replicate as easily in a CLI.