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 toexplain 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 hecalled it since it reduced the user to pointing and grunting. Dennisk --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss--------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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