[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Strange Request, Maybe?

[Michael H. Collins]

Kinda like IBMs WebSphere product.  It has a fancy gui with krap moving 
around
and appearing at mouseover and this is in some way good for the blind users
  because it is speech enabled too.  Of what use is a gui to a blind user?

You make a good point.

Have fun.

Bobby Sanders wrote:

> --On Wed, 9 May 2001 14:09:38 -0500, "WILLIAM PEARSON" <WPEARSON at cyclix.com> said:
> 
>   WP> Hello,
> 
>   WP> You see though, since Microsoft has had a tight grip on the PC
>   WP> market for so many years, well into the MS-DOS days...
> 
> Good point.  I hadn't thought of that.  I started in the DOS days and
> when I compared DOS and DOS networking with the PC multi-user OSs and
> terminals hanged off of them, there was no contest so I never really
> got to believing that MS was the end all be all.  Ahhhh... for the good
> old days when that weren't any "cutsie" pictures to distract you from
> getting your work done!  :) I still believe that a large operation run
> only with character based devices would save companies gobs of time in
> terms of productivity of employees using the system.  We'll never go
> back there, but I often wonder if, in the overall picture, it was a
> mistake to bring graphics to the accounting and word processing
> environments.
> 
> Bobby Sanders
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