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From: bhaskar@fluke.UUCP (K.S. Bhaskar)
Newsgroups: net.term,net.wanted,net.periphs
Subject: Re: Wanted: Super Terminal for Programmers
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Date: Fri, 14-Oct-83 20:59:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 14 20:59:46 1983
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You can get what you want with *almost* any terminal, if you use a human
interface (like emacs) that assumes that your human interface is a video
display unit and not a hard-copy device (like sh or csh).  You can customize
your human interface to your heart's content with an arbitrary number of
previous pages.  You can even lay out your keyboard differently if should so
desire.  Of course, what you need is a real window manager as your human
interface, but, unfortunately, our favorite operating system lacks (a) dynamic
linking and (b) classes / modules / objects which makes it somewhat
inconvenient, though not impossible, to write such a human interface with any
degree of efficiency.

Yes, 24x80 is for the birds, but, since I have trouble getting my employer to
buy me something better, at least I can have L-A-R-G-E buffer into which I can
stuff program output and look at it.

I am a born-again emacsimize-your-productivity believer!!!

-- K.S. Bhaskar (John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, Washington)