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Old video terminals demonstrate the beauty and timelessness of solid protocol design. While old computers are effectively useless except as curiosities, an old
by abraae 6y ago
Old video terminals demonstrate the beauty and timelessness of solid protocol design.
While old computers are effectively useless except as curiosities, an old video terminal is still just as good at its job as when new.
- jandrese 6y agoBack in the 90s I had to do some on-the-spot coding to fix a problem on a SGI machine using an ancient green terminal of some kind. It worked, but the keyboard lacked curly braces {} so I used trigraphs[1] for the first and last time. The fact it worked at all is pretty impressive. There was even a termcap entry for the ancient and crusty terminal. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraphs_and_trigraphs#C https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraphs_and_trigraphs#C
- guenthert 6y agoIn the late 90s (way after their time) I briefly got to use an old green terminal (which I believed to be a VT100). Those didn't have an ESC key. I figured then that's where the ^[ substitute comes from.