The tricky part is you give up the economy of scale by adapting a
mainstream interface. Sure, somebody could make a one-off version of a
GUI OS without the GUI but then every time some new product or other
comes out, how well would it function under the special OS? For those
who have read much Asimov he argued that robots would need to be human
shaped because the whole world of tools and environments are built to
interface with the human form. To make a robot of another shape requires
retooling the world. While you could make a fast non-graphic OS, that
would either be a reversion back to the CLI or yore or you'd have to
boil the ocean to adapt every app to work without all the usual
graphical accoutrements. BTW, my first computer did have a hexidecimal
keypad but it wasn't debounced so it took a couple tries to input each
two character hex code. Glad to have left that era behind :)
CB
On 12/25/14 12:43 PM, BobH. wrote:
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"
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Skype: Shainobi1
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