Maybe that’s their resentment - that they could have profited from it and didn’t.

Autotools can be daunting if you plan to write code that’s portable to Ultrix, IRIX, Apollo’s UNIX whose name I forgot, NonStop, UNICOS, OpenVMS, z/OS, macOS, and modern Linux.

Nowadays we don’t bother supporting dozens of platforms. Even Windows is something we can push aside and suggest WSL if you really need to run it under Windows.

And I even try to make sure my code runs correctly on z/OS (which IS a UNIX).

It was in the heat of the moment.

Sorry. I couldn’t resist.

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That’s possible as well. I wish common terminals (the kind that is shipped with the OS) would do ReGIS, Tektronix, or even sixel (yuck!).

I really hate that VGA looking font. That IBM went with serifs by default on the MDA and all subsequent PC fonts is a disgrace. They had a much nicer one in their mainframe and mini terminals.

OWL was really ahead of its time.

Compiling software in modern unix systems used to be a solved problem: “./configure && make && make install” should always be the gold standard.

I’m happy it relies on libcursesw for terminal abstraction instead of hard-coding ANSI sequences. This way I can continue using my VT-100 compatible terminal.

I still need a VT-230 or 330.