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From: heiby_u@falkor.chi.il.us (Ron Heiby)
Subject: Re: So, how's the GUI version coming?
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 01:00:20 GMT
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On 2 Nov 1998 18:36:34 GMT, fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
wrote:
>Incidentally, I don't necessarily subscribe to the view that
>All Must Be GUI.
Hooray!
>to escape the countless bugs and aggravating limitations of the
>Windows console environment
My "favorite": If the PC is busy, actually doing something, and you
have the absolute gall to type at a console window during this time,
the typed characters are delivered to the program LIFO, rather than
FIFO. Double Plus Un-Good.
>It has the added benefit that most of its thousands of functions can
>be activated without your hands ever needing to leave the keyboard.
Right on!
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