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Re: A Linux post

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: A Linux post
Date	2023-09-18 02:10 +0000
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On Sun, 17 Sep 2023 20:20:28 -0400, RabidPedagog wrote:

> I doubt I would have noticed that ANSI.sys was removed myself. However,
> I do recall the term ANSI very fondly. Back in the day, I learned how to
> produce a few and ended up in a local group (GRiP) and later iCE as an
> artist. It was fun, though I probably should have focused on my studies
> a little more.

Unless you had an app that used curses or had a fondness for legacy DOS 
games you wouldn't. PDCurses can be built on Windows but between that and 
trying to get the dbVista 'graphical' interface to use it I was happy to 
find DOSBox. 

Another casualty was Hyperterminal that was removed in Win 7, but you 
could copy it from an XP machine. Some things move slowly and paging 
services hung on to 2400 baud dialup interfaces forever. HT allowed you to 
experiment with parity, stop bits, and so forth until you got a 
recognizable response. Toward the end the big problem was finding a 56k 
modem that would stoop so low as using 2400 baud.

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Re: A Linux post RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2023-09-15 14:14 +0000
  Re: A Linux post RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> - 2023-09-15 10:23 -0400
    Re: A Linux post RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2023-09-17 12:26 +0000
      Re: A Linux post RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> - 2023-09-17 09:14 -0400
        Re: A Linux post rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2023-09-17 16:55 +0000
          Re: A Linux post RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> - 2023-09-17 20:20 -0400
            Re: A Linux post rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2023-09-18 02:10 +0000
              Re: A Linux post RabidPedagog <rabid@pedag.og> - 2023-09-18 08:12 -0400

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