I worked at Best Buy as a high school teenager just before they switched the green screens to some GUI monstrosity. Everyone in the store had to learn how to use the green screens (sales people, cashiers, techs, stockers - everyone) and after a few weeks / months you would get CRAZY fast.
A few years later in college I worked there again and by that point they'd transitioned to a much slower GUI that basically just wrapped the underlying green screen system. The learning curve was slightly better, but it wasn't nearly as fast.
Purpose-built mainframe-based TUIs were amazing. We lost a lot in pursuit of colored pixels.
A few years later in college I worked there again and by that point they'd transitioned to a much slower GUI that basically just wrapped the underlying green screen system. The learning curve was slightly better, but it wasn't nearly as fast.
Purpose-built mainframe-based TUIs were amazing. We lost a lot in pursuit of colored pixels.