DOS programs had real TUIs, with menus, popup dialogs, resizeable/movable windows, mouse support, etc. How can you say pico, nano and vi have TUIs? Those are worse than a command line.
(I'm not including Emacs here because I never used that.)
(I'm not including Emacs here because I never used that.)
pico/nano have menus. It should count for something?
I mean, if you look at the early Wordstars, they're not that different from nano - other than the color support.