Who's changed over? I use a 286 and operate from the DOS level. It has
many advantages which I will go into if anyone wishes......David
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Ron Amundson wrote:
> Does anyone know of sources about the history of the changeover from DOS
> style computer interfaces to Mac/Windows style graphical user interfaces
> (GUIs)? I've know the folk-wisdom about it, and how blind computer
> programmers were put out of jobs by the un-screen-readability of the GUIs.
> But I'd like to know more details both about what happened and what
> arrangements have been made (if any) so it won't happen again.
>
> Ron
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> Ron Amundson
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