Re: Navigator - Make it green screen and everyone will love it

I started with this O/S back when it ran on S/38 hardware. Then, instead of continuing the progression from S/32/34/36/38/40, the marketing people said 400. Annnnnd, they said, we'll just rearrange some of the command keys so they follow what the PC crowd is doing...

Well, I've been learning the CLI for lo these -many- years, and for the commands I know and love, I can key it in faster than a mouse-driven programmer can get the mouse wheels moving. That's the real issue-- for newcomers to the O/S, they can (probably) mouse through the menus faster than they can press F4 to bring up the built-in help screens. But for us old *ahem* timers, the CLI is already memorized!

It's like data entry-- if you're going to Computers-R-Us on the web to buy one thing, you can probably get it faster clicking on various buttons than if you had to work on a command-line menu. But a -real- data entry clerk, entering dozens of orders an hour, will probably be faster on a CLI/Green Screen interface.

Then there are people who barely tolerate PCs-- you know the ones-- their mouse is somewhere behind the keyboard, and every time they need to use it they re-e-a-ch across their desk to move it. No interface is going to be good for them!

Just sayin'.

--Paul E Musselman