Re: A92: The results. (was TIOS: Can't live with is. Can't live withou
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Re: A92: The results. (was TIOS: Can't live with is. Can't live without it?)
> Keep in mind that a CLI would be largely useless to '89 users, which are
> most of the market now. (i.e. no qwerty keyboard, so menu navigation would
> be faster than typing if the menus are thoughtfully laid out.)
Again... the 89 is irrelavent. I already said that the TI-92 was the target
as Fargo would be needed. I'm not worried about the 89/92+ users. They have
extra memory anyway.
> Why not archive it temporarily?
> Freeing it in any other way (short of compression) will essentially reset
> your calculator, as far as I can tell.
Last I checked, the TI-92 does not have archive memory.
> I think a well-laid-out menu system would be better...I'm a fast typist,
> but with a fixed library of commands, menus are faster. And, people--stop
> trying to implement mouse pointers on the '92 GUIs like Prosit. We have
> cursor keys only. Keyboard navigation (tab-tab-tab-tab-space) would be faster.
Uh... cursor keys do just fine with mouse pointers. Granted it's not the best
solution.
> > I would also warn against using any existing interfaces.
>
> Why not? The best way to get around the large system footprint is to use
> their routines--their fonts, their menus, their file system....
The context was for the DESIGN of an interface. I meant to be original when
designing a new interface. Too many people are obsessed with the "Start"
menu interface. Anyway, the file system is not part of the interface. That's
an OS issue (file management).
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