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Anyone who didn't start during the CRT era, when you couldn't even count on curses support in the terminal. The "everything is a printer" abstraction started b
by RichardCA 3y ago
Anyone who didn't start during the CRT era, when you couldn't even count on curses support in the terminal.
The "everything is a printer" abstraction started because PDP's that ran V7 Unix at Bell Labs really did use Teletypes for user interaction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter