Desktop Metaphor
Grant Taylor
cctalk at gtaylor.tnetconsulting.net
Mon Oct 22 18:16:32 CDT 2018
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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Grant. . . .
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