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The beauty of Unix is its simplicity. This made Unix so reliable. If you want to write a beautiful terminal as _addon_ I have no problem with that. But I would
by bitcracker 15y ago
The beauty of Unix is its simplicity.
This made Unix so reliable. If you want to write a beautiful terminal as _addon_ I have no problem with that. But I would not accept a _replacement_ of the old fashioned terminals. Because they are so simple, they just work.
- mmagin 15y agoApparently you've never messed around with termcap. Or had to use terminals other than xterms and vt100s, or some very near clones of them.
- flomo 15y agoMeanwhile, it took Unix forever before the PC's backspace key 'just worked'. The terminal guts are unbelievably gnarly, and it's kinda surprising it hasn't been replaced with a simpler approach designed for virtual terminals by now.
- bitcracker 15y ago> surprising it hasn't been replaced with a simpler approach designed for virtual terminals by now. Because they ... just work? :-)