Re: memory for apple IIgs

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

"Kelly Hall" (hall@priest.com) writes:
> "Michael Black" <et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message
> news:c15mcs$hlv$1@freenet9.carleton.ca...
>> And realistically, a GUI does not add function.  It simply makes
>> things "user friendly".
> 
> Don't knock 'user friendly' too much.  I remember the first time I ran a
> GUI on a decent unix box - being able to have half a dozen command
> windows open at once (some as shell prompts, most editing different code
> files) made developing code *so* much easier.  It changed the way I
> develop code, and that was about 16 years ago.
> 
What does GUI have to do with multiple windows?

I had multiple windows back in 1987, when I started running Microware
OS-9.  But nothing was wasted on fancy pictures, it was text only.

When I switched over from the Mac to Linux almost three years ago, lack
of hardware kept me from it till that late, I didn't feel the need to
routinely run a GUI.  I had multiple consoles, and there was nothing
that the GUI actually added for most things, except bloat.  If I need
a graphic environment, I'll run X but I use it to merely run Xterm.
I feel no need to have fancy pictures on the screen that I can click to
run other programs.


      Michael