[asdefghyk]

This article made me recall a text based GUI? I used in commercial programming tool named "Vermont Views" previously named "Windows for Data" This was around about 1990 or earlier? . It was a tool that allowed relatively easy development of text based user interfaces Old Ad for it https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1992-01/page/n25/m... Google the words >> +"Windows for Data" Vermont Views << for lots other links ....

[skywal_l]

A little bit like Turbo Vision[0] then. Turbo vision which has now a free port to modern terminal btw [1].

PS: Jeez, so much ads in Byte Magazine! Or is it because I haven't open a magazine in a couple of decades and forgot how cluttered they were??

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision

[1] https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

[asdefghyk]

The "windows for Data" and Vermont views target LOTS platforms , including DOS and lots Unix variants