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Ah, Those Times when Interfaces Were Built with Boxes of Stripes and Blocks of Colors!

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The article about the characters to draw boxes from Wikipedia has reminded me of those times when this rough but effective system of drawing boxes, boxes and text marking was the most interfaces on PCs. Very typical of DOS applications and utilities before Windows existed, these boxes were often used as interfaces for browsing directories (Commander Norton), running small utilities (SideKick) or as an integral part of more powerful applications …
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The article about the characters to draw boxes from Wikipedia has reminded me of those times when this rough but effective system of drawing boxes, boxes and text marking was the most interfaces on PCs. Very typical of DOS applications and utilities before Windows existed, these boxes were often used as interfaces for browsing directories (Commander Norton), running small utilities (SideKick) or as an integral part of more powerful applications …

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microsiervos.com broke the news in on Tuesday, July 22, 2025.
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