Salutations,
I disagree. I used the mouse under DOS all of the time. Matter of fact,
the first program I always install after installing windows in Norton
Commander. It uses a mouse.
I used a mouse on lots of games, Xtree, Magellan, DOS shell program,
DESQView, and DESQViewX. And of course other programs used the mouse like
WordPerfect.
As for voice control, it is a stupid idea. It sounds cool, just like a
using a touchscreen for your main monitor. But in practice it fails
miserably, except for certain special need applications or people.
Cheers,
David
on 7/11/02 12:25 PM, Joost van de Griek at joost_at_jvdg.net wrote:
>
> On 2002-07-11 08:30, "Jon Glass" <jonglass_at_mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Voice recognition, were it as flawless as you describe would be good for at
>> least data entry. I wonder how it would work for navigating the OS? In that
>> case, I can suspect it would get more awkward than either the mouse or the
>> keyboard. I can see it: "Computer, grab that little icon on the top left of
>> the screen. No, not that one, the one under it. Thanks. Now, move that to
>> the folder named 'my letters' inside the folder 'documents' inside 'my hard
>> drive'." or "Computer, choose 'Edit' menu. Choose 'Paste special'. Choose
>> 'text only'." Muh faster with either the keyboard or the mouse.
>
> The mouse was quite useless as an input device in the CLI days... What you
> just described doesn't mean that voice recognition is useless as a means of
> controlling an interface, it merely means that today's interfaces aren't
> geared towards voice input.
>
> ,xtG
> .tsooJ
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