[geeks] Interactive serial terminal programs

[Bill Bradford]

On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 07:30:21PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> The reason I say "retro" is that programming for a terminal strikes me
> with a feeling of good days gone by[1], back when "cutting edge" didn't
> mean "uses more computing power than it took to put people on the moon"
> and "interactive" didn't mean "lots of stupid animations running about in
> response to every click".  There's just something "feel good" about
> building a terminal-mode application with a great user interface; sort of
> like the difference between coming up with something really great in the
> kitchen on your own versus getting a cookbook recipe to turn out the way
> its author intended.

I was sad when my bank replaced the old-skool green-screen CRT in the ATM
that I use all the time, with a color one recently after the green one finally
gave up..   IT JUST AINT THE SAME.

Bill

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Bill Bradford     
mrbill at mrbill.net 
Austin, TX