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> It’s not something that ever existed in hardware terminals or even early pseudo-terminals (like the default console Linux drops you into if you don’t have a G
by seba_dos1 3y ago
> It’s not something that ever existed in hardware terminals or even early pseudo-terminals (like the default console Linux drops you into if you don’t have a GUI installed).
FWIW, the default Linux console had scrollback until a few years ago when it was removed in Linux 5.9.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=50145474f6ef4a9c19205b173da6264a644c7489 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
- hnlmorg 3y agoI did not know that. Thanks for the share. Linus' comments on that commit are interesting to note too. Because, in my opinion, they add weight to the comments made on here regarding the annoying non-standardised complexities to terminal scrollback. I think that is the real problem here.