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From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: printf, data presentation
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Date: 5 Jan 89 13:44:53 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
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In article <9281@smoke.BRL.MIL> Doug Gwyn writes (re curses-based interfaces):

>  It's an idea whose time has gone.

Are you saying that a (relatively) high-priced, ethernet-connected
graphical display should be installed for every office manager, production
assistant or data-entry operatory who performs simple data management
tasks?  Or perhaps that applications which don't require bitmap displays
and mice would not benefit from a standardized set of menu, window and form
management tools?

I realize this is not a popular concept, but there is a large segment of
the Unix population which is *not* involved with cutting-edge design and
engineering tasks, but merely doing their mundane, daily work on a Unix
machine.

[ perhaps we should reissue teletypes for such trailing-edge tasks :-) ]

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Dave Hammond
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