On 11/04/07, der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote:
Unless
I've got my wires crossed (again), "windowing" and "GUI" have
very little to do with another. That is, you can have text-mode
winodws and windowless graphics, no?
My take on it -
In principle, you're right.
In practice, you're wrong.
I think I have to go with Chuck (assuming he is the poster of the
first quotation). At least for home computers both text-mode windows
and graphical computers with text interface a plenty: The latter
encompasses every 8-bit of the home computer wars; for my C64 I had
many application programs that were graphical in nature (pre-GEOS of
course). The former is admittedly more rare - but I think one has to
allow programs such as Norton Commander and WP5 that had multiple
somewhat independant text areas. And not to forget the plethora of
TSRs that could throw up dialog boxes on the PC's text screen...
Joe.