text-based

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text-based - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  text-based
  
     <jargon> Working under a non-window-based operating system
     (e.g. MS-DOS) as opposed to a graphical user interface
     (e.g. Microsoft Windows).
  
     An MS-DOS text-based program uses a screen with a fixed array
     of 80x25 or 80x40 characters.  Examples are WordPerfect
     before version 5.1 and Microsoft Word.
  
     (1995-03-16)