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by electrum 12y ago
"There are several options. One option is to work around the hardware limitations in software, displaying something like
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Another, much more popular, option is to move your email reading, web
browsing, etc. from your 1970s-vintage VT100 to a graphics terminal.
Have you considered the VT340, for example? Or an IBM PC, model 5150?"
- mhd 12y agoJust for completeness' sake: The 5150 came out in 1981, the VT340 in 1987. The thread was from 2002. I'm German, so take this with a grain of salt: I think there might've been humor involved.