> The curses API may seem something of an archaism on UNIX desktops increasingly dominated by X, Motif, and Tcl/Tk. This sets the document at a particular poin

> The curses API may seem something of an archaism on UNIX desktops increasingly dominated by X, Motif, and Tcl/Tk. This sets the document at a particular point in time … in a lot of ways a better point in time. I really miss the mid-90s computer scene. Things worked, often well, and in comparison to today they were so low-latency!