Tom Massey wrote: > > Mallard wrote: > <snip> > > > I think its all a way for geeks to keep their day jobs. make the exec's > > think you are worth something because you know some cryptic commands you > > can type in. The more crap you remember, the more you move up the geek > > ladder. Why do people hang on to VT100 80 X 24 1983 technology like its > > some sort of wonderful thing? > > Because VTxxx *is* a wonderful thing in a lot of ways. Read up on it > before you say it's out of date. Can be very useful for hooking up old > machines that can't handle a GUI, but can still be useful. > <snip> By the way.... VTxxx technology goes back at _least_ to the mid 70's - long before 1983 - and if you're trying to do something on a shell account with a slow dialup line, I agree, it "*is* a wonderful thing" ;-) -jdr-
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