The following interview is taken from the August 1984 issue of Unix Review magazine (which briefly changed its name to Performance Computing, but then dropped out of print and went to an online-only format at www.unixreview.com). Permission has not been given to copy this, so you should only use it for your own personal or scholastic purposes. Do not distribute it without obtaining permission from the publisher of Unix Review.
This essay describes the surprising results of a brief trial with a group of new computer users about the relative ease of the command line interface versus the GUIs now omnipresent in computer interfaces. It comes from practical experience I have of teaching computing to complete beginners or newbies as computer power-users often term them