X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,6b7d1dcd14ec72a3 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-31 23:19:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!dialin73.pg6.hamburg.nikoma.DE!not-for-mail From: Philip Newton Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Interesting question. Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 08:27:06 +0200 Organization: very little Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <9mj0b3$75v$1@snark.paco.net> <6uk7zkt45x.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> Reply-To: "Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton" NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin73.pg6.hamburg.nikoma.de (213.54.5.73) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 999325189 3842838 213.54.5.73 (16 [11583]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:7241 On 31 Aug 2001 21:34:02 +0200, Neil Franklin wrote: > "Sara Gardener" writes: > > > How you imagine GUI in ascii? > > No need to imagine it. Such UIs existed and were used on productive > computer systems only 10 years ago[1]. I have actually written such > programs professionally. I suppose one could quibble that they weren't graphical in the sense that they allowed bitmaps, but there were certainly many WIMP interfaces around (well, maybe only WMP -- window, menu, pointing device/mouse; no icons). Quite a few of them, on DOS at least, based on Borland's Turbo Vision library; one could often tell from the interface if they had been programmed with TV :). Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton That really is my address; no need to remove anything to reply. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.