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In article <4itb8a$320@news.erie.net>, pce@moose.erie.net (Paul
Christenson) wrote:

> CLIs are only as bad as you make them.  GUIs are similar.  My main
> bitch about GUIs is the unnecessary load they put on system resources.

OK. Semi-valid complaint. GUI's waste MIPS when they are being used to
navigate. Of course they make the user faster (in 98% of the cases) so is
it really a waste of MIPS?!?! So is wasting a little CPU time in the
forground on a single user machine such a big deal, when that user is
seldom doing anything else? I think not. How fast can you type
anyways?!?!? So a CLI COULD take less processor time - you can't type that
fast (or read that fast anyways). My 7500 scrolls text much much faster
than I can read it, and accepts characters much much faster than I can
type it anyways (under a CLI under a GUI). So who cares?!?!

In fact apple is looking at new ways to burn MIPS - like active assistance
- automatic finding - 3D metaphores and Virtual Spaces... why, because
arguably those metaphores and features will use the computers resources to
make ME more productive. I dont need MIPS in the background - I need my
MIPS working for ME!
-- 
David K. Every
Sr. Software Engineer
Jostens Learning Corp.