On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 10:25:23 +1000 (AEST)
Damian McGuckin wrote:
> Back in those days, terminals ran at 30-240 characters per second.
> Not all that fast. Actually 300 characters per second, i.e. 300 baud,
> was slowww! I remember being blown away by 9600 baud terminals.
Right. If you hooked up
On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 07:08:44 +1000
John Gardner wrote:
> Really? That's interesting. What did do? On the terminal
> emulators I have on hand at the moment, none of them are responding
> or behaving differently.
Same thing it still does do, because outside of the GUI all we do is
emulate 1970s ha
A recurring theme in my man page clean-up work has been my violent
antipathy for shouting capitals in their texts. While I don't _like_
being shouted at for reasons other than true emergency, the real problem
with the capitalization convention in man pages is that it happens at
the input source, d
On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 11:39:32AM +1000, John Gardner wrote:
> I've lost the link, but I remember somebody got hold of a hard-copy
> terminal somehow and used it to display his Twitter's newsfeed by threading
> output through a serial port hooked up to his Linux workstation.
>
> The output wasn't
