Just came to see if anyone here got interested in MS-DOS TSR programs as a result of their exposure to Sidekick :).
Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
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Re: Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
#162If you are in the US, pick a slow day and chat to the customer service people at Lowes or Costco. Both stores use TUI interfaces for their instore service apps, and boy are they fast with them. They reserve GUI things for the self service point of sale systems and keep the TUI for cases where speed matters. I suspect that these apps might once have been mainframe hosted (in other words, screen-oriented, with the PC t…
Back in the old days, the primary users of many mainframe UIs were the data entry team (almost universally female). Sitting in large offices with rows of desks and a huge clock on the front wall, they weren't interacting with customers, they were transcribing from sales sheets, order forms, application forms, etc. prepared by someone else. There was no great need for user friendliness, because the only users were in…
Mice are the problem, not the rest of the GUI.
Keyboards are just faster once you learn them.
Re: Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fun fact: EDIT.COM and HELP.COM are secretly QBASIC.EXE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic#Contents
qbasic.exe :D hah. never knew. but that takes me right back haha thx
I can't think about QBasic without thinking about that game with primates throwing bananas across a city at each other. Like a simpler version of Scorched Earth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)
also Money, and REMLINE
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#164I'm actually developing this as a ERP system. It has been featured here a few years ago, and old demo can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3kpD7om_aQ
The goal is to have a fully distributed multi UI ERP system, with TUI, web, android, ios, etc. all native. It's moving forward every year :)
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#165How about this software I wrote back in college to manage beauty parlors?
https://github.com/victorqribeiro/beautyhair
The text is in PT but I guess you can understand it. I loved writing those CLI applications in Java back then.
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#166Acme, the combination editor, shell, and window manager. Influenced by Oberon,
which another comment mentioned.
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#167Re: Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
#168If you are in the US, pick a slow day and chat to the customer service people at Lowes or Costco. Both stores use TUI interfaces for their instore service apps, and boy are they fast with them. They reserve GUI things for the self service point of sale systems and keep the TUI for cases where speed matters. I suspect that these apps might once have been mainframe hosted (in other words, screen-oriented, with the PC t…
Genuine Parts (large US based auto parts retail) is similar. The folks working there are working on turbo muscle memory and navigate the system impressively quickly.
Re: Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
#169If you are in the US, pick a slow day and chat to the customer service people at Lowes or Costco. Both stores use TUI interfaces for their instore service apps, and boy are they fast with them. They reserve GUI things for the self service point of sale systems and keep the TUI for cases where speed matters. I suspect that these apps might once have been mainframe hosted (in other words, screen-oriented, with the PC t…
What I've seen on Costco scanners looks identical to the menus in Koerber/Highjump's "Advantage Platform". If they're anything like us they are just running a telnet client on a ruggedized Android decvice. Once you use the system for a bit you build muscle memory and don't even need the menu text most of the time.
The AS400/OS400-like interfaces always seem like they should be more popular super-user interfaces. They seem best at navigating tree-like data but most OS level interfaces feel tree-like these days. I think the affordances work a little better than vim-keys sometimes. A vim-mode option or command palette would be straightforward.
But it would require people to use full size extended keyboard (function F rows, numpads, etc). Which shrinks the user base quite a bit.
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#170I use aerc as my goto email client every day.
bandwhich: Terminal bandwidth utilization tool sc-im: A very capable terminal based spreadsheet program. bpytop: Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor broot: New way to see and navigate directory trees daff: provides efficient table comparison and alignment, supporting formats like CSV and SQLite, making it essential for data analysis and synchronization tasks. It's indispensable for those requiring accurate data comparisons in analysis, development, or data integration projects.