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Charlie Stross

Absolutely not THIS is the peak of user interface design!
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A terminal window containing a vim text editor session, showing what vim 7.3 displays when you run it with no arguments:
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Guido Kollerie

@cstross Always found Borland's Turbo Vision the peak of user interface design.

Fortunately, that kind of text based user interface design is getting a comeback of some sorts. See:

Screenshot of Borland Turbo Pascal 7.0's IDE with a snippet of Turbo Pascal source code and the "About" dialog box opened. It shows key elements of the interface such as a menu bar (hotkeys highlighted), window elements (close, maximize button, scrollbar), statusbar, buttons
Charlie Stross

@guido Borland (like Microsoft Word 5.5 for DOS, and even Windows 3.1) followed IBM's CUI guidelines for keyboard accelerators/control keys, which were WELL THOUGHT OUT AND CONSISTENT—you could navigate the menu system and do everything using the keyboard. As consistent as vi or emacs once you learned them, but universal in intent.

Then Microasoft threw the ball into the long grass as of Windows 95 and Apple never picked it up to begin with (hey have you seen our new mouse, yo).

Mar 20, 2025, 10:21 AM·Public·Ivory for iOS
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