Aunc.1664
net.unix-wizards
utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!wm
Thu Jan  7 23:07:41 1982
user interface WHAT I WANT phs followup
The system I was promoting is NOT a menu-driven system.
It is a command driven system, the menus are there just
to help you find a command, but you never need to look
at them to get at any command in the system.  Now, after you
type the name of the command, if you do not type a period,
you DO get a single menu, the one containing the options
and defaults.  You could NOT do this by having a shell that
generates the correct command lines for each command.  You
MIGHT be able to generate something similar to it, but
bad enough so that unix users would take one look at it,
shake theirs heads, and remain convinced that menu driven
systems are no good.  Please, is there anyone else out
there who has used the TI DX10 operating system?  And
please, I am not promoting that operating system, just
its user interface.  The rest of the system sucks pretty bad.

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