Terminal Emulators Reviewed

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Posted by Hemos on Thursday June 17, 2004 @06:38AM from the learning-the-lines dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Linux Weekly News has a now free review of terminal emulators. It might be old but still remains an important tool to many of the regulars here." If you're checking that out, it's also worth checking out Joe Barr's CLI series on Linux.com (also owned by OSDN)

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the only one? by Jareeedo · 2004-06-17 06:42 · Score: 5, Funny

One day, dual-booting will be considered "old-school." I, and my 12 partitions, live for that day.
Re:I Love Terminal Emulators by sparkywonderchicken · 2004-06-17 06:53 · Score: 1, Funny

I only use mine for side scrollers and ascii based games. I've always wanted to play Hunt the Wumpus 3d.
Re:Already?? by sxtxixtxcxh · 2004-06-17 06:53 · Score: 1, Funny

in soviet russia, servers slashdot YOU!

hahah i was kinda interested myself.

then again, i'm also at work, trying to get my productivity down to an all new low...

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Re:"Still an important tool" by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-17 06:55 · Score: 2, Funny

VIM and the Funge Specification ... that's all you need for some made Befunge programming. Can my plug get modded up too?
Thanks! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-17 07:00 · Score: 3, Funny

Now we can all laugh at you for being so clueless. You've sure put a bright spot on my day, Mr. Uberhacker!
Re:I Love Terminal Emulators by DAldredge · 2004-06-17 07:01 · Score: 4, Funny

I REALLY miss the old /. where people knew what the hell they where talking about.
Real nerds don't use terminal emulators by mark-t · 2004-06-17 07:07 · Score: 2, Funny

Real nerds actually have these sorts of terminals lying around!
Who needs emulation when you can have the real thing?
(my wife has, on more than one occasion, insisted that I ditch my vt220, but I can't bring myself to just chuck the thing... too many memories)

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1. Re:Real nerds don't use terminal emulators by daeley · 2004-06-17 07:13 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  my wife has, on more than one occasion, insisted that I ditch my vt220, but I can't bring myself to just chuck the thing... too many memories
  
  You really shouldn't talk about your wife that way. ;)
  
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Re:I Love Terminal Emulators by proj_2501 · 2004-06-17 07:25 · Score: 2, Funny

" Slashdot used to be a lot better. Five or six years ago you had your annoying trolls but also some bright sparks of insight.

These days slashdot is worse than a pack of mediocre newbies."

Does that explain why you are still here and posting?
Re:I Love Terminal Emulators by whiteranger99x · 2004-06-17 08:04 · Score: 3, Funny

Cool, how many CPS (characters per second) did you playing WC2 on your terminal? :)

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Re:Pasted article by operagost · 2004-06-17 08:59 · Score: 3, Funny

And just what, may I ask, is wrong with a 80x25 basic text only serial dumb term with clacky keyboard and green mono CRT?
You can't play Galactic Trader on it!
Get a VT, you HEATHEN!

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