I think a lot of us have said for a good while, that modern 'puters are 99% eye candy or effects; and maybe as much as 1% real work, though doubt it.
DOS worked so well, cos it did none of that. Boring to the sighted, but even they were more focussed on getting real info in or out and not just there to play with it. So, yes, a cutToTheQwik system that took us back to doing the stuff we're doing, without all the other overhead, would have some use; can think of professional areas where it would be saleable for it's simplicity; but doubt it's going to happen. For real geeks wanting to re-capture the era of when Gates fiddled with the Altair I think it was... 9 switches, 8 toggles to define a binary code, the 9th switch to latch it to memory. They wrote and played crude games on those things, entering machine code in byte by byte. I wouldn't recommend that, but a square, 4x4 keypad representing 0-F, and let the geeks do everything with that by entering 2 key hex codes. Like anything, one could get the hang of it, and get quick at it; all be it not for everybody. Those that got good at it, did so because it was there and all there was at the time. How far along this route did the recent Raspberry Pie computer thing get? I think it was DOS capable in terms of hardware; and they ran TTS on that in the end. Something to think about for about $37 or so I think it was. RobH. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yuma Antoine Decaux" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2014 4:15 PM Subject: the graphicsless paradigm Hi All, Merry xmas to everyone. I wanted to drop this in as I’m working on something that has to do with touch sensations. I am a blind student and have been blind for 6 years. Prior I had 15 years of 3D experience. Meaning games design, physics, rigging and skinning, all the stuff you learn doing 3D. I cannot see anything now, however I have extensive understanding of the processes and memory behind the screen, especially screen reading now. I wish a graphicsless mode. This mode allows things to get very zippy and fast. for some of us, this graphic layer is not even necessarry. It helps with battery, and there’s more memory for voice over related stuff. And small background tasks. That do stuff that can help more than a toastie looking application icon prancing around with sparkles to get our attention. Or swipes of blurring around and swirls changing or morphing into the next window. That’s a lot of stuff happening there while our face looks kind of blandly at nothing. A lot meaning, a lot of processes under the hood as if your pedal is down while lifted on a chassis platter. Do you get the point? Something like leaving an automatic image projector, or leaving all the lights in your home on, as a visually impaired user, let alone a sighted person. There’s flow intuition too. I am sometimes in wonder wehn someone types on their tablet and the speed of response and wish it also for when I use my tablet with voice over. Right now, on IOS, it’s a freaking olds mobile in a porsche. yeah, it’s so damn slow to respond, especially when fast comboing through things because the muscle memory allows us to be fast, the User interface is absolutely knackered into submission and some siri fart stops net because in the wiring something went snap. All of this to say if anyone wanted to comment Yuma Antoine Decaux "Light has no value without darkness" Mob: +612102277190 Skype: Shainobi1 twitter: http://www.twitter.com/triple7 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
