alt Hacker NewsA brief history of the Bloomberg terminal
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The modern Terminal is based on a private fork of Chromium to give it the look and feel of a VT100 terminal, and integrate their private networking and security technologies. The BBT predates HTTP, and backwards compatibility is hugely important to the company- they have a museum where a second-generation Terminal from ~1985 shows the current news, because they are so dedicated to backwards compatibility that they still can support the 1985 hardware.
Have we made any progress on a cracked version?
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/8aiz67/how_...
Related: A look back: The Bloomberg Keyboard
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17079033 (104 comments)
Love how those dense screens make numbers checkable at a glance. Tiny shops still live that gap—bank lumps vs invoice lines—just without a dedicated terminal.
It may be of interest to some that Bloomberg has an ocaml based DSL built in for pricing exotic derivatives.
The article has an image of terminal keyboard used by a legendary trader... the key-caps are immaculate; the letters haven't faded at all. Amazing. I wonder if they were double-shot...
I did an internship in finance in college. Worked at a Bloomberg terminal that earned more money than me
Does someone know any font that is similar to the closed-source Bloomberg terminal font? I really love that font.
Any idea on what technologies/toolkits are used to build Bloomberg terminal?
Zitron must get on this ASAP it will make his day
At $32,000 a year per person the Bloomberg Terminal is a deeply unfair advantage for the rich to get richer.
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I have the highest regard for these terse, but information-dense displays that enable humans to quickly grasp all information they need to do their jobs, and nothing more. This is also something avionics provide - a modern cockpit displays are a work of art in layering needed information for what is happening at the time, both the dense PFD and the much specific that communicate aircraft status.