Pfft. Who needs xterms when you have screen properly configured?

-David

On Jul 31, 2007, at 5:42 AM, George Toft wrote:

"The main purpose of a GUI is to support multiple xterms."

Some people just don't get that statement :)

George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
623-203-1760




Dennis Kibbe wrote:
On Monday 30 July 2007 09:38:05 am Bill Lindley wrote:

Trying to explain command-line to a GUI-only person, is like trying to
explain the advantages of learning a foreign language to someon who
insists only on pointing to phrases in a tourist guidebook.

\\/


Eben Moglen (http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/ for those that don't know of him) recalls when as a programmer at IBM he was asked to evaluate the just released Apple Lisa, one of the first computers with a graphic interface.

Eben realized that the GUI was the death of language. The caveman interface he
called it since it reduced the user to pointing and grunting.

Dennisk
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