> Francois Labreque wrote:
>> Exactly.  Grandma wouldn't know this makes no sense at all, and most
>> people prefer to see a 10 year old girl "flying" over a wireframe mesh
>> of the Jurassic Park building to get to the building they're in and
>> lock the doors before the raptors get in [...]
>
> Wasn't this a real interface developed by SGI?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn
>
So it was.

The point stands, though, that it was more visually appealing to have 
her use a 3D GUI than a shell.

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