Minnesota Internet Users Essential Tool

Turbo Vision in its early incarnations uses the 80×25 character text mode, meaning very speedy screen updates, even on slow PCs.

Later Minuet versions - including the last one 1.0 Beta 18A - also support graphical modes up to 1600 × 1200 pixels (UXGA) while displaying up to 16.7 million colors, depending on the capabilities and VESA compatibility of the hardware used.

At the time, most FTP clients required an almost endless sequence of "cd", "ls" commands to browse servers.

Later common web browser features such as JavaScript, CSS or proxy server support are not present in this version either.

Enabling the graphical mode, however, allows Minuet to directly render GIF and JPEG images in HTML documents, which is a superior feature compared to other DOS-based WWW browsers of the time.

At that time most PC users connected to the internet using a modem, so a robust modem-capable driver was required.