GUIs 'forced' on people (was Re: Here's something to consider.)

From: nerdware_at_laidbak.com <(nerdware_at_laidbak.com)>
Date: Thu Sep 17 22:21:33 1998

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From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: GUIs 'forced' on people (was Re: Here's something to
         consider.)

> At 05:05 PM 9/16/98 PDT, Max Eskin wrote:
> >
> >AutoCAD had a CLI up to the latest version,
> >not sure if they took it out. It was a Command-line drafting program,
> >usable very efficiently. Only now have they jumped on the Windows
> >buttons-pop-up-when-mouse-moves nonsense.

I don't know about Mechanical Desktop, but I use R14 everyday and it still has
a cli. In fact, I find that several commands are much faster to type in than to try
and find with the mouse. I use keyboard shortcuts all the time.

I know they had a Windows version of R12, but I don't know how much further
back that goes.



Paul Braun
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Received on Thu Sep 17 1998 - 22:21:33 BST