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   Message 21,109 of 21,759   
   Bob Eager to Jim Jackson   
   Re: Anyone still use only use the Termin   
   26 Apr 25 07:49:26   
   
   From: news0009@eager.cx   
      
   On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 20:09:56 +0000, Jim Jackson wrote:   
      
   >>> Subject says it all.   
   >>>   
   >>> I'm curious whether there are people who do all their computing, or   
   >>> part of it, without a GUI at all.  That is, just plain Text Mode.   
   >>   
   >>   
   > What!!! You mean that GUI thing actually caught on with some people?   
   > I thought it wa a passing fad.   
      
   I use the GUI for email and web browsing.   
      
   But command line for almost everything else.   
      
   I did start usiing UNIX way before GUIs (see sig)   
      
      
      
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