You're right about that - for interactive computing, a properly formed GUI interface with proper human factors considerations is the best thing since sliced bread. I've used damn near ALL varieties of command-line and GUI systems that made it out into the general public, and there's "horses for courses" but for general use there's no doubt that the GUI is the way to go.
But I thought you used and were a foaming-at-the-mouth Windoze supplicant. What you you know about a proper GUI interface?
Well a tidbit - menus and pulldowns *consistent from application to application* instead of "whatever we happened to feel like the day we did it". Maybe also no "windows within windows" where an application opens a window, and then the document opens another window inside it. Let's see, the "full screen" icon on the inside window doesn't really make it full-screen, it makes it the fill the outer window, which is still in reduced mode.
And maybe, just maybe, cut and paste will someday work properly and in a non-idiosyncratic way in Windows. Most Windows apologists WON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND that it doesn't already work properly! And it doesn't even work consistently among Office applications - much less third-party apps. Let's see, cut a plot from MATLAB, paste it into a Word document, and now the dotted gridlines have turned into solid lines. Go searching through various problem databases - "Windows does not support interupted lines in the smaller sizes" - use BMP images of plot instead. Do that - and now it looks like you scanned the picture on the "My First Scanner" (ages 2 to 8).
Mac (all versions) and even the much maligned CDE (from several sources - SUN, Dec (still can't use the C-word)) do far better than windows in human factors and interface issues.
Seriously, W2KPro, but the Telnet client in and of itself is not a GUI. There *are* GUI-like Telnet front-ends (wIntegrate), but why mess with a good thing? I could've just as easily booted up to DOS, and run my old copy of ProComm.
Funny that it's still on my hard drive after God only knows how many OS migrations... BlueWave is still sittin' there too, embalmed in it's high bit ASCII glory!
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