I'm old enough to remember and as far as I can recall it was never considered "crappy" or "uninteresting". The command-line interface was considered a bit dang

I'm old enough to remember and as far as I can recall it was never considered "crappy" or "uninteresting". The command-line interface was considered a bit dangerous (rm /<return> OOPS!) A lot of people were trying to get their hands on it to escape from the stranglehold of IBM and the other non research-friendly OSes.