13 Apr
2007
13 Apr
'07
7:10 a.m.
M H Stein wrote:
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That was me that said that, but I'm not the OP. I was assuming that this was
what the OP meant, though.
And I have come to accept, as I'm sure most of us have, that the nature of
this list's populace makes a higher-than-average level of nitpicking inevitable.
Oh well. I wouldn't change it for the world.
,xtG
tsooJ
So to be clear, I am agreeing with the position
that one can have
Windows outside of a GUI (and that one can have a GUI that lacks
windows, such as a CAD program), but in the mind of the masses, GUIs
== windows.
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And of course the mouse is irrelevant to this tiresome argument as well,
since it was quite commonly used in plain old text-mode single-tasking
non-windowed DOS (which could of course also have windows, multi-task
and display graphics, so I guess DOS WAS a GUI after all...)
Sheesh!
The OP said all we need to know with "I was going by the *popular* definition
of GUI/Windowed environment, not the strict one."