Carlos Rodrigues 🪣 on Nostr: I once got a DOS version of AutoCAD from a friend whose dad worked at a heavy ...

I once got a DOS version of AutoCAD from a friend whose dad worked at a heavy machinery manufacturer. Just a couple of floppies, no hardware key required.

Out of curiosity, I played with it for an afternoon and promptly put it aside. It was way over my head, but I found it intriguing that it favored programming over drawing shapes with the mouse.

Up to that point, GUIs and CLIs had seemed like opposing concepts to me.

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