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| | Text Mode User Interfaces |
 | | Because a minimal amount of RAM was needed to store the text as opposed to the larger amount needed to store graphics, and because manipulating the text characters was faster, this was a very optimal way to display video information at the time. |
 | | The problem with this kind of interface is that there are often thousands of commands, each with different options or parameters that must be specified as part of the command. |
 | | Text based applications can share many of the same visual elements as GUIs, such as buttons, pull down menus, mouse pointers, text boxes, list boxes, overlapping windows, and more. |
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