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Because I've tried so many interfaces and
systems for this assignment, my head is swimming with telnet escape
key combinations, WAIS server addresses, foreign language equivalents
for Boolean searching, common gopher menus, etc. I have to look up
almost everything at this point, or rediscover it when I can. The
systems and tools most ingrained in my memory are the oldest ones--
command line utilities and the Dialog and Melvyl systems.
An example of an interface whose features are difficult to recall is
Gopher. The user must be able to navigate a long series of
complicated menus to reach the desired information source--something
akin to jumping through a dozen hoops for a dog biscuit. If the
average Gopher user is not aware of the bookmark feature (or cannot
save bookmarks on a network), they must remember a long series of
menus in order to find the same information during repeated use.
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