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The other answers give cutting-edge workarounds. Historically, the ancestor of Linux was developed in an environment where terminal standardization usually str
by ttyprintk 6y ago
The other answers give cutting-edge workarounds.
Historically, the ancestor of Linux was developed in an environment where terminal standardization usually stripped out the marketable graphics features.
Sound was single beeps, vocalized with ^G.
If it seems overdue to standardize a real-time character-encoded graphics protocol, you can look at the Tektronix 4104 and descendants.
That being said, typesetting was important early in UNIX. Even though the interface was command-line, UNIX implemented roff and maybe wouldn’t have succeeded if it couldn’t word-process into roff. Word processing was the first application for UNIX outside of the Labs.
- PaulHoule 6y agoWorse than that "the terminal" was originally a 110 bps. "Rm" was short for "REMOVE" because it would drive you crazy to wait for the printer to thunk away 6 times. The Bell Labs Technical journals is full of user studies for little things they could do to make UNIX users more productive. Even by 1990 it was likely to be 9600 bps, maybe you had a faster network and portable graphics X windows at a university lab. In the 1980s the Bell Labs folks had a rip-off of the Xerox PARC system that was network portable in the 1980's (see "Plan 9") but it was strange custom hardware and software that never really caught on.