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Im doing a project for my information technology 120 class and the last question is : If MS-DOS is not WYSIWYG or GUI, what would it be called? I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT MEANS! HELP! reply asap!!

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ASKED: September 22, 2005  5:02 PM
UPDATED: September 26, 2005  11:22 AM
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It’s called CLI (Command Line Interface).

Have fun,

Bob

Bobkberg
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Command line

Kholder
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just so there is no confuson….Bob is correct in the literal sense…..it is CLI for Command Line Interface. This is no doubt what the teacher/prof is looking for.

Good luck
Paul

DrillO
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CLI, Command Line Interface.
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Pete

Pcantele
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I concur with the above that it is probably what your professor is looking for. However, I believe that it is technically incorrect. A CLI is a prompt driven interface where the user interacts with a system by typing in commands (hence, command line). It is quite possible to build textual user interfaces with mouse input using MSDOS and associated utilities (ANSI.SYS, mouse.com, etc). It is probably more correct to state that MSDOS (and kin, like CPM, Linux, etc) presents a textual display to the user.

Shuichi

Shuichi
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If you want to be coy, you could say ‘inferior OS’ or ‘Bill’s cash cow’. Not a bad return for a $50,000 buy-out.

Byimw02
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