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No, not really. I have been missing the COMND% interface style for years now; and I am contemplating building a shell for it; in the stunned realization...
Sure there is. We did on the -10 from the time I was a newbie. If the command is not in the "shell" then a piece of user mode code will have to be brought in. The -10s had very few commands built into the code. Examples are DAYTIME, SET WATCH, EXAMINE, DEPOSIT. It is desirable that all commands be user mode code separate from the monitor's EXE file. That way user mode system code can be changed without rebooting the monitor, modifying the monitor, patching the monitor or screwing around with hardware.
I am buttuming that evenutually the biz will move all user interface code into the video card. With today's hardware, I don't any reason to prevent the compleat user manual to be stored in the video card. Command JSYS equivalent would have an index into the manual's text that's in the TTY core.
But you don't want commands built into the monitor code!!
So what? People who are doing that aren't thinking ah e a d.
Why do we have to conform to them? This commands' help doesn't have anything to do with what gets prettied up on TTY screen for the user. If the user want webpooe, you paint webpooe.
Perhaps our differences are due to our concept of "presently constructed". My whole life has been taking presently constructed thingies and making newer thingies. Or thinking about how to today's...
I haven't met a Palmpilot or instant messaging hardware, but I can't imagine that webpooe is getting painted on those itsy-bitsy screens that can only be manipulated with a rat-flavored device.
BAH
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