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Me neither, Turbo Vision was cool, Clipper kind of ok for data entry applications, and curses, well it was the way of UNIXes before X Windows became affordable.

Apparently that is some kind of retrocomputing movement.

The strange part is that most folks pushing for TUIs weren't even born and don't get the pain we went through.

We used TUIs because that is all we could afford, not because we were given an option.



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