tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12349577.post67435885816353..comments2023-11-02T09:19:52.430-04:00Comments on Purple Avenger: DOS on a 486 as a viable development platformPurple Avengerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994076252416384045noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12349577.post-72157087773152114302006-12-02T07:44:00.000-04:002006-12-02T07:44:00.000-04:00Needless to say, the expansion of the hardware dem...Needless to say, the expansion of the hardware demands made by software is almost entirely due to the emergence of the idiot-proof graphical user interface and its concomitant, graphically oriented on-demand "help."<br /><br />As an old command-line maven, I deplored the transition as ardently as anyone, while it was in progress. (Among other things, I didn't want to have to learn the immense Windows API, nor the smaller but equally daunting X Window / Motif equivalent.) But though the costs have been considerable, they've also expanded the utility of computers so greatly that a modern household without one is considered unthinkable...to say nothing of a desk in a modern business enterprise.<br /><br />There are drawbacks too. We've created a generation of users that can't tell you how many cans there are in a six-pack without recourse to Google or Wikipedia. Ah, well.Francis W. Porrettohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.com