The rise and fall of the standard user interface

Re:The rise and fall of the standard user interface by ok123456 on Thursday January 25, 2024 @01:14PM (#39132587)

> DOS was the Wild West when it came to UI

You could tell when something was made with Borland and TUI. Professional applications tended to look alike.

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Re:The rise and fall of the standard user interface by lproven on Thursday January 25, 2024 @05:47PM (#39136503)

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This is true... but, to be fair, there were a handful of apps that went out of their way to look like Turbovision apps but weren't, and by the same token, it was possible to create (e.g.) Delphi apps that didn't look like it.

The first console text editor I really liked on Linux was SETedit.

https://setedit.sourceforge.net/#scrnsht

That, I think, uses a 3rd party independent clone of Turbovision.

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