alt Hacker NewsWe've been using RS232 since 1960. I have 100% confidence that in a thousand years there will still be engineering terminals in starships emulating a VT100
We've been using RS232 since 1960. I have 100% confidence that in a thousand years there will still be engineering terminals in starships emulating a VT100
There will at least - in 75 years be something internally, a minimum layer of abstraction that looks a whole lot like VT100 escape codes in a character stream. It's probably one of the stickiest API's that I can think of.