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X11 in ASCII

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the why-the-hell-not dept.

ChristTrekker submitted a story that we probably have run once upon a time, but hey, it's a holiday weekend, and who doesn't enjoy reading about a X11 in ASCII graphics? Complete with screenshots and code for you do it yourselfers. I like the enlightenment screenshots. Painful.

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  1. This is why micro kernel and os is cool by Felinoid · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The folowing is just as true of Solarus (closed micro kernel) as is of Linux (open monolythic)

    This sort of thing is why you need to let end users edit/replace as much code as they can.
    You can do useless but cool things like this while not being bloated with useless and unwanted 'features'
    Sealed systems that don't let end users change things around end up having every feature possable in the system and still lack features users want.
    But when you let them change things (eather by open source or micro kernel) then you get all kinds of funky cool features.
    Even ones that don't really have any practical application. Oh wait did someone say this will work for brail terminals? Well guess this IS practical after all.
    But we'd never know that if it wasn't for the ability to replace the X11 system with this funky hack.

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  2. PC Anywhere and Windows 3.0... by PinchDuck · · Score: 3, Interesting

    could do the same thing without programming. PC Anywhere running on a DOS 3.3 box actually tried to render the Windows screen in ascii. It was freaky.

    Thank god that technology hasn't been lost!