text-oriented interface
1Text mode — is a kind of computer display mode in which the content of the screen is internally represented in terms of characters rather than individual pixels. Typically, the screen consists of a uniform rectangular grid of character cells, each of which… …
2History of the graphical user interface — The graphical user interface, understood as the use of graphic icons and a pointing device to control a computer, has over the last four decades a steady history of incremental refinements built on some constant core principles. Several vendors… …
3Command-line interface — Screenshot of a sample Bash session. GNOME Terminal 3, Fedora 15 …
4Graphical user interface — Screenshot of KDE Plasma Desktop GUI. A screenshot of the GNOME Shell GUI …
5Block-oriented terminal — A block oriented terminal is a type of computer terminal that communicates with its host in blocks of data, usually chunks of text, as opposed to a character oriented terminal that communicates with its host one character at a time. The IBM 3270… …
6Message-oriented middleware — (MOM) is software or hardware infrastructure supporting sending and receiving messages between distributed systems. MOM allows application modules to be distributed over heterogeneous platforms and reduces the complexity of developing… …
7Character-oriented terminal — A Televideo ASCII character mode terminal. A character oriented terminal is a type of computer terminal that communicates with its host one character at a time, as opposed to a block oriented terminal that communicates in blocks of data. It is… …
8Character Oriented Windows — (COW) is a graphical user interface technology used on the IBM PC to provide interfaces that are independent of the video graphics technology used by the computer. The technology gained prominence when used to create a user friendly IDE for Turbo …
9Point-and-shoot interface — A point and shoot interface is an efficient object oriented, text based interface, usually presented on a non GUI platform such as DOS or mainframe computers.In a point and shoot, many objects are displayed and to the left of each object is an… …
10Microsoft Interface Definition Language — (MIDL) is a text based interface description language by Microsoft, based on the DCE/RPC IDL which it extends for use with the Microsoft Component Object Model. Its compiler is also called MIDL. See also Object Description Language External links …
