Desktop Metaphor

[Grant Taylor]

On 10/22/2018 03:13 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
> What do you call the TEXT based mouse interface, like found on some dos 
> shells.

I tend to use the term "(mouse) cursor" for both text and GUI.

> GUI I think of is the pure graphics.

What is a graphic?

Does a traditional text (extend ASCII characters 0 - 255) with ANSI 
color coding with sufficiently high enough resolution count? 
Particularly if the resolution is high enough that "characters" can 
almost double as pixels for a GUI?  }:-)

Also, MS-DOS Shell (as ships with MS-DOS 6.22) has a GUI mode.



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