GUI: TUI and Xerox
Explore text-based user interfaces (TUIs) that enhance command-line usability with box-drawing characters and understand the history and development of graphical user interfaces (GUIs). This lesson helps you grasp how early GUIs like the Xerox Alto led to modern interfaces on contemporary operating systems.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Text-based user interface
We can choose to make the command-line interface more user-friendly, by giving a hint to the user about available commands. This is done in the text-based user interface (TUI).
The TUI uses box-drawing characters along with alphanumeric symbols and special characters. The ...