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Another thing is that GUIs require a lot more hardware. They require a lot more
computing power. I don't know if any of you worked on the old Lotus 1.0 that
worked on the IBM 8086 machines. Those machines did a lot, but they weren't like
the current machines. The machines that we're working with, the 486s, are similar
to the mainframes that we were working on in the early 1970s, but these machines
are a lot more powerful. All the stuff that goes on the screen, the WYSlWYG, "what
you see is what you get," eats up lots of memory and takes up a lot of computer
resources. I