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reaperduceryesterday at 2:40 AM1 replyview on HN

5.) Requires an 80x24 window. Not ideal for monitoring several machines at once.

htop scales all the way down to 40x8 on my TRS-80.


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JdeBPyesterday at 3:38 AM

It's bad the other way, too. btop on a 50×232 terminal over an actual 57600 BPS serial line is unusable, even in 16-colour mode. It does not have even the most basic of full-screen TUI redraw optimizations, and outputs the entire screen again and again.