*nix on "classic" systems

[M H Stein]

------------------Original Message:
>So to be clear, I am agreeing with the position that one can have
>Windows outside of a GUI (and that one can have a GUI that lacks
>windows, such as a CAD program), but in the mind of the masses, GUIs
>== windows.

>-ethan

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And of course the mouse is irrelevant to this tiresome argument as well,
since it was quite commonly used in plain old text-mode single-tasking
non-windowed DOS (which could of course also have windows, multi-task
and display graphics, so I guess DOS WAS a GUI after all...)

Sheesh!

The OP said all we need to know with "I was going by the *popular* definition 
of GUI/Windowed environment, not the strict one."

Speaking of CAD, I remember being blown away by an early demo of 
AutoCAD running on an XT with two monitors; an MGA for the 
commands, etc. and a CGA (or was it an EGA) for the drawing.
Of course there were $$$ boxes that could do this as well, but on
a lowly XT? I was impressed (didn't take much in those days).

m