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mmc on Dec 1, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ivo – a reimagined Unix terminal system

I think he agrees, except for the textual display.

From the article:

  Data structure. Windows PowerShell had a chance to 
  redesign the terminal from scratch, but defaulted to 
  the same old grid of ASCII. One innovative thing they did 
  do was add structure to their data, piping .NET objects 
  instead of raw text, allowing the user to select fields by 
  name instead of writing elaborate AWK scripts. The shell 
  for the research OS Famke does a similar thing for 
  higher-order functions

quanticle on Dec 2, 2011 [–]

I didn't quite get where the author was going with that. Windows Powershell has access to the full Windows .Net API. If you want to spawn a window to display graphics or what have you, you're free to do so.

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