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by xcv123 969 days ago
The GUI was rendered in text mode. It's called a TUI (Text-based User Interface)
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einr 968 days ago
Plenty of 486 era machines had the AMI ”WinBIOS” whose setup utility kinda-sorta emulated a Win 3.x look and ran in (EGA 640x350 4bpp?) graphics mode, with mouse support:

https://media.moddb.com/images/groups/1/4/3107/winbios.gif

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mratsim 968 days ago
TIL, I thought TUI meant Terminal UI
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