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Note that ANSI is not BBS-specific and was not _created_ for BBSs... it was already around and BBSs made heavy use of it. EDIT: what I find is missing on the p

• Scubabear68 4y ago
  Right, it was for controlling terminals originally. I recall in the early 90s I worked for an ag chemical company as an intern. They had a horrid budgeting app written on some old crusty DB platform, I was asked to make the text interface “better”. We accessed via VT terminal emulators, so I created a library of ANSI drawing primitives and created a primitive window / menu system out of it. It blew everyone’s mind at the time, but it was only a couple of week’s work. * Edited to add a lot of DOS software and terminal stuff did similar things, including some nifty Terminate and Stay Resident utilities (TSR!).