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The shiny new macs being advertised today will ship with a terminal that is compatible with standards established 45 years ago. That's quite a humbling thing to
by afandian 7y ago
The shiny new macs being advertised today will ship with a terminal that is compatible with standards established 45 years ago. That's quite a humbling thing to realise.
I'm sure the various character sets, error correction and parity, control codes etc constituted standards hell for terminals back in the day. But a solid set of conventions seems to have survived.
I'm not sure how much of HTML will survive in 45 years, and with what historical 'depth of field'. Is it more likely to contain <marquee> or web components?
- wrnr 7y agoYes, funny fact when debugging a problem with a new UI library, the Cocoa API for handling keyboard-shortcuts does not support Cmd-. because that was the original signal to terminate the proccess (like ctrl-c). The solution involves setting, calling a bunch of API just to listen to the signal.