Re: Apple IIGS GEnie front-end

[xray@cs.brandeis.edu (Nathan G. Raymond)]

In article <3qe8f8$8au@nntp.interaccess.com> tward@interaccess.com writes:
>Erik Kloeppel (erik@hypermall.com) wrote:
>: I'm much happier with a CLI when using an online service - text interfaces
>: are faster, for one thing, and tend to allow for a little more control
>: over your environment.
>
>Personally, I agree with you. I prefer the speed of text access over the 
>flashy GUI interface for online stuff. But the fact remains that lots of 
>people really do prefer the GUI interface for its ease of use and because 
>it looks good. Just look at how popular Mosaic and Netscape are. They are 
>certainly not required, and they are slow, but people like them. At least 
>with GEnie (and CIS) you are still given the choice, unlike Prodigy, AOL 
>and others which force you into a GUI.

I like one over the other depending on access speed and the computer I'm
using.  If I'm using my //c with a 2400 baud modem, I like text (and
dislike even ANSI).  On the other hand, when I'm on an SGI Indy running
Netscape 1.1 through ethernet, heck, I love it!  I don't have the cash to
blow on online services, so I resort to a local free UNIX bbs for my
modeming.  I've never been too impressed by any of the commercial online
services' interfaces, and the initial learning curve delay of yet another
CLI has never endeared me to them. 

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