On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:05 AM Jose Senna <jasse...@mail.com> wrote: > > Did anyone else look at this ? > https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00263-0 > Command line is still (much) alive.
Those who think it isn't need to get out more. I had a Unix system at home before I got an XT clone running MSDOS. (I still have it.) Mine was an early machine intended to be a single user Unix workstation. The bigger ones I administered for a living were multi-user systems that assumed you would access them remotely, and would log in as a terminal to a command line. Mine had a well-crafted GUI, but I still used a command line for things that weren't well suited to a GUI. These days, I run Win10 Pro on my desktop, but installed an open source tabbed console emulator called ConEmu, that lets me have multiple command lines in a single tabbed interface, and what is on those command lines may differ. Here, the default if it's installed is JPSoftware's TCC-LE, a freeware limited version of their commercial Take Command GUI interface. TCC-LE looks an awful lot like (and its design is based on) the popular 4DOS command.com replacement for DOS PCs. Bit I can also run MS's PowerShell, Windows CMD-EXE, and Win32 ports of things like the *nix bash and zsh shells, or DOS character mode applications run using the vDOS Plus fork of the popular DOS emulator designed to let you run old DOS games on things that aren't MSDOS PCs. (A have a few DOS programs on an Android tablet using an Android port of DOSbox.) Most of what current users do is best done through a GUI, but there are things like commands run in pipelines that need a command line to be able to do that.Most folks simply don't need a command line, but you can get one if you do. Another issue is the shift to mobile devices for computing. While you can *get* a command line on something like a smartphone or tablet, trying to use it can be actively painful if you don't have an external keyboard you can attach. ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
