It looks like DESQView for MS-DOS.
VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment
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Re: VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment
#12Glad to see someone made this to save me the time! I've wondered if a TUI could replace some desktops for low end or embedded systems, or something to use on remoting into a datacenter etc.
Drawing text is the most expensive in a GUI.
True in the general case - but a fixed size font drawn in a grid over the screen? There's a lot you can to do make it very cheap
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#13This is amazing. Has there been anything like this before?
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#14It's very cool!
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#15I just ssh-ed in, there are multiple users, its crazy!
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#16This is amazing. Has there been anything like this before?
Yep, around 1990
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#17Insane.
Well done brother ;)
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#18Tried to connect with Juice SSH on mobile and it looked quite ... abstract.
Also with Terminal.app from macOS...very..er..."colorful".
https://www.dropbox.com/s/q52w26jsyv086hn/Screen%20Shot%2020...
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#19This is amazing. Has there been anything like this before?
Yep, around 1990
1985.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_TopView
I had just started working at Gupta Technologies at the time, and for a short while we seriously considered developing for TopView instead of Windows.
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#20I came here expecting an article about my beloved Emacs ;)