On 1999-05-30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Or Botton> said:
>>>Let's suggest a computer "language" that is neither popular nor
>>>"correct", but highly practical and relevant, nonetheless: DOS.
>>I thought DOS was correct? Popular is another thing altogether
>>(but that's esantially a PR problem).
>If the question was not "suggest a computer OS that is both correct
>and popular" but "suggest a computer user-interface that is both
>correct and popular", then again, I cant really say an existing
>name. But I did pondered on this topic for quite a while.
>It seems, and most people agree, that the best interface seems
>to be a CLI&GUI hybrid that will exploit the best of both worlds.
>I think that Norton Commander 4/5 is a good example. It had GUI and
>CLI at the same screen, both availble immediatly and completing each
>other. You could do everything in both ways ...
I've never used Norton Commander, but isn't Windows with a DOS box or
X-Windows with Virtual Console boxes under Linux, just about the same thing,
as far as having two ways to do things is concerned?
Wouldn't a "computer-user interface" that combines the *option* to use a
mouse or keyboard for executing choices with drop-down menus be considered a
combination of GUI and CLI? Under Red Hat Linux, when using X-Window (which
I use very little, except for connecting to the Internet), one of the
interface choices is "tiffless" (I think that's what it's called), which
preserves the usual adjustable window stuff, but eliminates all the icons in
the menu items. Would you consider this a GUI/CLI compromise?
Jerry
Internet Montana
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