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Mosh is fantastic. And as an old-timer I am rather amused how some good ideas from a while back make its way into current hot tech again. After all, the IBM 327
by jwr 7y ago
Mosh is fantastic. And as an old-timer I am rather amused how some good ideas from a while back make its way into current hot tech again. After all, the IBM 3270 terminal was specifically designed to not transmit one character at a time. Thanks to this, a 1970s-era IBM 3033 mainframe fitted with only 16 MB of main memory was able to support up to 17,500 3270 terminals. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3270 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3270)
- JdeBP 7y agoTerminals in mosh are still fundamentally character mode, though. That's a fairly inescapable part of the POSIX general terminal interface. A better analogue for something where there's a block-mode send of form data is, ironically, a WWW browser and WWW pages with forms.