Plan9 shed the textual terminal baggage we all carry today, and it did so in 1995.
The terminal of plan9 was just a window. By default you got a shell with a textual prompt, but you can launch any graphical application in there or any textual application. you can launch a 2nd window manager with its own windows. you can run doom. you can `ls` and `ssh` all you like. it all just works.
this debuted in Plan9 in 1995 or so. 30 years ago we had the terminal of the future and the entire world ignored it for some reason. I'm still a bit mad about it.
The terminal of plan9 was just a window. By default you got a shell with a textual prompt, but you can launch any graphical application in there or any textual application. you can launch a 2nd window manager with its own windows. you can run doom. you can `ls` and `ssh` all you like. it all just works.
this debuted in Plan9 in 1995 or so. 30 years ago we had the terminal of the future and the entire world ignored it for some reason. I'm still a bit mad about it.