From: kcl@net2net.com (Kevin Little) Newsgroups: alt.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.macintosh,alt.mac,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.macintrash,de.comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: CLI is the Future (was Re: CLI vs. GUI (Was: OS 8.. CLI?)) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 17:14:00 GMT Organization: UltraNet Communications, Inc. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <33f2e67b.8971057@news.ultranet.com> References: <5r81m4$ubl$1@news.fas.harvard.edu> <33EF50E4.3546@accesspro.net> <5snnu1$dtk@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: igate.net2net.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 Path: 195.95.96.10!news.unisource.be!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!ubnnews.unisource.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!blackbush.xlink.net!howland.erols.net!infeed2.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!192.48.96.125!in3.uu.net!199.232.56.18!news.ultranet.com!not-for-mail Xref: 195.95.96.10 alt.amiga:1169 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:179842 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:195814 alt.mac:387 comp.sys.mac:1159 comp.sys.mac.misc:163255 comp.sys.macintrash:99 de.comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:16021 In my humble opinion, the days of the GUI are numbered, or at least its dominance is. Before long (I hope!) we'll all be using CLI again -- *voice* CLI, that is. The need to stare at a display while physically manipulating some device that moves some small sprite across that display in order to get a computer to do something useful is a drag (cough, cough... :-) This scenario does not require fully functional AI or any SciFi break-throughs as far as I can see. IBM and several other smaller companies are making good progress in voice recognition. (Help me here folks -- what's the name of that small company here in the Boston area doing voice??). Get the cost down a bit more, employ the 3x to 5x faster CPUs coming down the pike, and hook it all up with an adaptive, next-generation CLI, and all sorts of neat (dare I say, wonderful?) things become possible at mass-consumer price points. My admittedly non-expert SWAG on timing? 2 to 5 years. -k === These are my opinions, not Net2Net's -- I found them lying around in my head. ===