Ok, I may be missing something, but there have been "GUIs" in
text on computers for a long time.
It's probably mostly well known on IBMs and clones. Though I haven't
use them enough to name specific programs, I know I've used editors and word
processors that have basically the same exact UI using text instead of
graphics. They make use of the ANSI graphic characters sometimes too.
The program like this I have most experience with is ProTERM, an Apple
II communications program (best term program I've seen on any computer).. I
love this kind of text-GUI. It's quick, you can use it without a mouse,
and it's still got a "nice" interface. (I like CLIs too, esp UNIX shells.)
So it sounds like the hard part in this is obviously the actual
implementing, not the designing or simulating of a GUI.
-- unknown@apple.com Apple II Forever These opinions are mine, not Apple's.