* Posts by AllTheseClickyThings

2 publicly visible posts • joined 7 May 2020

Frames per second? Windows Terminal brings back text animation with the VT100 blink

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Non-Windows options

I'd just like to point out that non-Windows users need not feel left out:

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

...to evoke those halcyon times when if you got to the lab and an ADM-3A was open so you didn't have to sit at a decwriter, it was going to be a good day.

What do you call megabucks Microsoft? No really, it's not a joke. El Reg needs you

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LaRedmond Tar Pit

...in honor of the unfortunates immortalized on the cover of The Mythical Man-Month, who either wandered of their own free will or were driven by forces beyond their control into the nigh-inescapable embrace of doom. Refuge, sustenance, or simply safe passage to the sunlit uplands beyond... who can say what they sought? All shared the common fate: first a lack of progress, an inability to move forward... imperceptibly but inexorably, they sink; the more they struggle, the more they are trapped... perhaps at the end they roar, knowing they cannot save themselves but hoping still to warn their kin... then they are gone.

And yet they still come.