Post #2245870
2026-05-07 19:55 UTC
@b0rk@social.jvns.ca
You managing to express the old magic that is just obvious to those of use who remember when the physical VT100 terminal was new (and the good one, and thus the de facto standard to emulate) will be so helpful to those who did NOT live thru that era but have to live with all the backward compatibility we've accumulated !
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@n1vux@mastodon.radio 2026-05-07 20:23
@b0rk@social.jvns.ca 40 years ago, i was doing computer security research at a QNGO, and was reading the small manual for the VT-100 I'd received (with a network card, quite avant garde!). I noticed that the Power On Self-Test could be invoked by an Escape Sequence. https://vt100.net/docs/vt100-ug/chapter3.html#DECTST