17 Sep
1998
17 Sep
'98
3:21 p.m.
Date sent: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:55:33 -0500
Send reply to: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
From: John Foust <jfoust(a)threedee.com>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: GUIs 'forced' on people (was Re: Here's something to
consider.)
At 05:05 PM 9/16/98 PDT, Max Eskin wrote:
>
>AutoCAD had a CLI up to the latest version,
>not sure if they took it out. It was a Command-line drafting program,
>usable very efficiently. Only now have they jumped on the Windows
>buttons-pop-up-when-mouse-moves nonsense.
I don't know about Mechanical Desktop, but I use R14 everyday and it still has
a cli. In fact, I find that several commands are much faster to type in than to try
and find with the mouse. I use keyboard shortcuts all the time.
I know they had a Windows version of R12, but I don't know how much further
back that goes.
Paul Braun
NerdWare -- The History of the PC and the Nerds who brought it to you.
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