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On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, James Fidell wrote:
Gordon Henderson wrote:It's a whinge I have too - Basically, work productivity doesn't seem to have improved since the days of glass TTYs..Ooooh, "jelly mould" ADM 3a's. Jumpers for goalposts...
Wish I could remember the ones we had on the old pdp11... They literally were glass TTYs - screen clear only, I think... The main computer department at uny did replace most of their tty33's with ADA3a's, but they didn't like us using them - set them to 1200 baud too because the system (Prime) couldn't handle much more...
I wrote a set of librarys (in pascal!) for them to do basic screen manipulation...
... and 8 years later I found myself writing termcap from scratch (with only the SunOS man page to go on) as part of a *nix porting project I was working on...
Anyone know of a curses X window manager?apt-get install screenActually, years ago I worked on some software support for a system that did windowing text-only displays. Can't recall what it was called now though.
I wrote a set of routines to do window popping written in 6502 assembler which ran on the Apple ][... Wish my old Apple ][ still worked. Wish I still had a disc drive for it. Bet the 5.25" floppys I have in the loft don't read anymore though...
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