Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 06:42:48 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
 

On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 11:41:34 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:
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You very well may be one of only a handful of folks left to even have
a hardware terminal setup and operational.

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I haven't seen/used one since the early '80s.

 
Well do I remember the beloved VT-100. A yard deep and heavy as hell.
And KED, the keypad editor for it, attached to a PDP-11.

That was a step up from the ADM-3A that put the D in 'dumb'.  I don't know
what the timeline was but curses needed a terminal that could handle the
ANSI sequences so I assume they were contemporaries.

We used an early version of db_VISTA that had a management interface
called ida that was used curses. Life was grand until Windows removed
ANSI.SYS.  DOSBox to the rescue.

I never worked with Raima's later products but db_VISTA was more
sophisticated than dBase but never was as popular. afaik there is no
connection to VistaDB for .NET.