Questions tagged [user-interface]
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Origin of Cisco-like CLI?
Loads and wagons of networking devices all over the world use the same manner for commandline interface (CLI). First I met it in 1990s at Cisco devices (switches, routers...) which used Cisco IOS. It ...
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Was there a system with customarily backspaced prompts?
Nowadays, a default prompt in a Unix shell might look like % _ or $ _ (with the underscore indicating the cursor location), or, on other systems, a more elaborate string, like C:\>_.
On the besm-6, ...
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When/why did computers come to have push-button main power switches where on and off is the same push action?
In the top answer to Why were animated screensavers used instead of a black screen on CRT monitors? the main reason was said to be that it avoids users accidentally turning off the machine, thinking ...
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