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I worked in a lot of places where mainframe applications survived along with their more moder replacement for years, because experienced users were orders of magnitude more efficient using old mainframe TUIs than the clunky and slow web interfaces that replaced them.

Even in the PC world, the move from DOS based TUI programs to windows GUI in applications like POS was not without some user trauma and insatisfaction.



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