Ergonomics and the Console.

So I’m starting at this big honking command prompt screen craning my head slightly to look at the bottom (the terminal is full screen at the moment), when I wonder if it wouldn’t be better for my neck if someone way in the past had decided that instead of having text scroll down a console, it would scroll up (so the latest entry is at the top).

It’s backwards from our normal way of reading, but I’m sure people would get used to it.  I know I do when I sort email (the most recent emails are at the top, so I don’t have to scroll down to see them, and I can see later stuff and skip earlier stuff in long threads).

So who knows… it makes me ponder… maybe I’ll try to modify a terminal program to do that and see how it works….

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