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		flomo on Dec 2, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ivo – a reimagined Unix terminal system Meanwhile, it took Unix forever before the PC's backspace key 'just worked'. The terminal guts are unbelievably gnarly, and it's kinda surprising it hasn't been replaced with a simpler approach designed for virtual terminals by now.

bitcracker on Dec 2, 2011 [–]

> surprising it hasn't been replaced with a simpler approach designed for virtual terminals by now.

Because they ... just work? :-)

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