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ABB...@macatawa.org (Gary Kirchherr) writes:

>In article <teddyburD...@netcom.com>, tedd...@netcom.com (John
>Sanger) wrote:

>> The statistics from all of the surveys done on
>> speed of use of computers and workstations, shows consistantly that
>> rodent oriented is not the fastest.  Those surveys show commandline is
>> the best for speed of performance of the individual using the computer
>> or workstation.

>I find this last sentence beyond belief. Maybe command-line interfaces are
>faster for hardcore wireheads, and maybe the command-line OS runs
>_marginally_ faster, but those of us living in the real world find it
>infinitely easier to use a GUI in _any_ form.

The above is true, given a limited number of apps.  However, Wordperfect 
5.1, Lotus 1-2-3, and dBase 3, all for DOS, are very fast after the person 
who is using them learns the keystrokes.  These are the apps that are 
prevalent is business today.  Many companies are using MS Windows, but 
many more are still in DOS-land.  (You're using a *286*?!)

Give a novice MS Win apps, and they'll be faster with them, but give them 
DOS apps, and train them, and they'll be much faster.  (Statistics and my 
own experience back this up.)  

>Wake up and realize that the computer world is not the private domain of
>computer nerds anymore. All sorts of people want and need to use
>computers, and they don't want to have to work with a byzantine
>command-line OS to do it. If the command-line interface were as great as
>you claim, there would be no Windoze, and Apple would be bankrupt.

Once again, well-trained workers return the cost of training in their 
work.  These workers are using a command-line OS, but them only commands 
they need to type from the DOS prompt are 'wp', '123', and 'dbase'.

 
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