> 3)
> <snip/>
> Basically though, there is no GUI vs TUI debate, just the constant 20 
> year long whining
> from computer guys (those rare doctors who can actually program 
> included) who do not want
> to realize that they have become nearly one with the [expletive 
> deleted] keyboards and
> thus live in complete denial of the fact that 99% of humanity (even in 
> industrialized
> countries) finds the keyboard an alien way to use computers.
> 
> The American Journal of Medical Informatics has quite a few interesting 
> studies which
> point out the radical difference of things like the acceptance of PDAs 
> (and NOT command
> line interfaces) by young doctors and the allergical reaction of older 
> ones towards
> keyboards.  In short no normal doctor ,young or old, likes a keyboard, 
> so you can forget
> about TUIs and the only way you can avoid the word GUI is if you 
> consider PDAs and tablet
> PCs to have some form of gestural text entry, or if you go to text 
> entry by the way of a
> Voice User Interface of the kind that has been developped for air 
> trafic controllers.

Same here, this person is unable to tell a TUI from the
command line.
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