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ori_btoday at 2:20 AM2 repliesview on HN

Graphics. They're network transparent, and take over the terminal.

Terminal apps were obsolete once we had invented the pixel. Unix just provides no good way to write one that can be used remotely.


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em-beetoday at 3:28 AM

Unix just provides no good way to write one that can be used remotely

well that's the issue, isn't it?

the graphics options that we have are slow and complex, and they don't solve the problems like a terminal and therefore the terminal persist.

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kpstoday at 3:20 AM

A network-transparent graphics protocol? Who would ever think of such a thing?

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