Previously in the DOS era, “terminal” would allow you to render to the video buffer directly and it allowed for an ecosystem of text GUI apps to flourish. Right

Previously in the DOS era, “terminal” would allow you to render to the video buffer directly and it allowed for an ecosystem of text GUI apps to flourish. Right now, this is largely impossible because modern terminals are really emulators and you have to rely on strange things such as ncurses etc. A better terminal with some nice features such as access to a virtual video buffer would allow for exciting new possibilities