Windows Refund day - reaction

[jrv at vanzandt.mv.com (James R. Van Zandt)]

John Chambers <jc at trillian.mit.edu> writes:
>Nowadays, I still have only one display,  but  it  can  hold  several
>"terminals". And those terminals are better than real ones, because I
>can resize them, select a small font to get a lot  of  text  visible,
>and cut-and-paste between them. So the WIMP displays have been a real
>gain, but not because they can display  pretty  pictures  (which  are
>rarely  worth  a  thousand  words  of  something like C or perl), but
>simply because they give me multiple text windows simultaneously.
>
>Of course, to a one- or two-fingered typist, this is probably  rather
>irrelevant,  and  a  mouse is just as good a keyboard as one with all
>those zillions of confusing keys. But I've long been able to move all
>my  ten  fingers independently, so I find a command-line interface to
>be much more user-friendly  than  something  involving  navigating  a
>random flock of windows and menus.

Sounds like you are using X windows.  I get all those benefits from
the virtual consoles on Linux.  Plus, the characters are big enough to
see easily, and I have a definite key combination to get to each VC
(alt-F2 for the remote session, alt-F4 for documentation, alt-F5 for
the superuser session, etc.).  I hate having to take my hands off the
keyboard to switch xterms.

		   - Jim Van Zandt
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