Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]

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From: Arun Gupta
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 02:59

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In article <danpop.807226875@rscernix>, Dan Pop <Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:
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>I did all this switching on the Unix side.  Sorry to disappoint you,
>but I never read any documentation for elm and pine.  They're menu driven,
>you know?  My Unix tutorial book has a chapter about vi which contains
>everything I needed to know about it and emacs is menu driven.  An 

One of the following must be true :
	1. You need very little from vi.
	2. You had a very good UNIX tutorial book
	3. You are unaware of about a million features of vi.

>application doesn't need a GUI in order to be easy to use.  This explains
>why the ASCII terminals haven't been killed yet by the PC's, Mac's,
>workstations and X terminals.  BTW, their worst "enemy" here is the
>X terminal.

IMO, ASCII terminals haven't been killed yet at least in part, because they
consume the least bandwidth of the various display solutions, and bandwidth
is still very expensive.

I agree with you that an application doesn't need a GUI in order to be
easy to use.  What it needs is consistency with the other suite of applications
that the user is likely to use and be familiar with.

-arun gupta

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