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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 1 Sep 2001.
Re: Interesting question.

Re: Interesting question.

On 31 Aug 2001 21:34:02 +0200, Neil Franklin <nei...@franklin.ch.remove>
wrote:

> "Sara Gardener" <sar...@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > How you imagine  GUI in ascii?
> 
> No need to imagine it. Such UIs existed and were used on productive
> computer systems only 10 years ago[1]. I have actually written such
> programs professionally.

I suppose one could quibble that they weren't graphical in the sense
that they allowed bitmaps, but there were certainly many WIMP interfaces
around (well, maybe only WMP -- window, menu, pointing device/mouse; no
icons). Quite a few of them, on DOS at least, based on Borland's Turbo
Vision library; one could often tell from the interface if they had been
programmed with TV :).

Cheers,
Philip
-- 
Philip Newton <nos...@gmx.li>
That really is my address; no need to remove anything to reply.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

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