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Not strictly answering your question, but years ago I worked on a job which comprised a group of us sitting in a room, each with a VT100 connected to a Unix box
by tragomaskhalos 9y ago
Not strictly answering your question, but years ago I worked on a job which comprised a group of us sitting in a room, each with a VT100 connected to a Unix box in the corner, cranking out C. We weren't massively overworked, so one clever bugger wrote his own terminal multiplexer on the side, enabling him to flip between sessions using function keys. Another guy wrote a shell - in Bourne shell. It had, errm, a few issues, but, crucially, gave us command line editing and history (that was otherwise lacking in the vanilla sh we had, and none of us fancied csh much).
- noir_lord 9y agoMy 2nd year college project (UK college not US very different things) was a VT100 emulator written in Delphi. In hindsight I should have done what the rest of the class did and took the Blackjack option but there was the option to do our own project instead, I demonstrated it worked by connecting it to my Linux laptop (this was '98, I was a strange 18yo). I was into LambdaMoo and mtrek at the time and I wanted to understand how they worked better :).