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Yes, it takes me back to configuring my X session for the first time on an NCD Xterminal in the computer lab at uni, connected to the schools's Sun and Dec serv

Yes, it takes me back to configuring my X session for the first time on an NCD Xterminal in the computer lab at uni, connected to the schools's Sun and Dec servers. It was so much better than all the vt220 serial terminals, and they were "scary" enough that it was surprisingly easy to get one.

bitwize 2y ago
Modern devs: X11 is bloated and obsolete Also modern devs: Show HN: My proposal for a modern terminal that supports 24bit color, inline graphics, and video
- whywhywhywhy 2y ago
  Being able to use all the colors of your display and display a graphics is not "bloat"
kragen 2y ago
pretty funny to think that now people are scared of vt220 emulators
- wkat4242 2y ago
  Even legit IT professionals are often scared of changing the windows registry these days :')
  - kragen 2y ago
    sure, but that's the opposite extreme, isn't it?