/me thinks you (and I!) may not be representative of the typical user.
I love a shell prompt, too... but many people do not have the requisite
typing skills nor the patience to learn all the (arguably) cryptic commands:
root:sol10x86# chown -R us ./base
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jun 20, 2006, at 9:37 PM, Jerry Callison wrote:
Perhaps I am not making my point in an effective way. While your 15
year old ASCII terminal does have the same management characteristics
as a Sun Ray, it no longer meets the standards of user interaction
required for today's apps. These standards of user interaction have
increased in leaps over the years... manual switches were replaced by
punched cards, which were replaced by ASCII terminals, which
ultimately gave way to graphical user interfaces. The reason your 15
year old ASCII terminal is no longer useful is because there is at
least one order of magnitude productivity to be gained by using a GUI
in its place.
This is arguable. ;) GUIs have their place, and personally I love
'em, but they are not the end-all, be-all of human<->computer interfaces.
-Dave
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