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talk is a really cool (and very old) chat program, also available on most Linux distributions and I think it was also standard on VMS.
by slow_typist 3y ago
talk is a really cool (and very old) chat program, also available on most Linux distributions and I think it was also standard on VMS.
- enriquto 3y agoytalk has to be the best user-interface that I've ever known. It's a multiplayer tmux! We used it to do pair programming remotely around 2003. Your terminal is divided in two parts, one half for you and the other half for your colleague. You get to see what the other does. It needs no complicated infrastructure: just xterm, ssh and talk.
- dtaht 3y agosomeone should update talk to ipv6.
- beezle 3y agoI used talk on at TOPS-20 Decsystem 2060 back in the stone age