5/19/2023 0 Comments Cool retro term windows![]() ![]() I've changed the fonts many times but all the windows fonts look horrible to me. Maybe this is a move in the right direction. The window was seen as just for legacy DOS type programs. This is something that I don't believe Windows has ever done properly. I know this is conflated by the monolithic commands that developers appear to like developing now, where the a single tool does everything, and that has it's place for some types of applications, but basic OS commands should IMHO be independent of the terminal access. It fits in with the Unix ethos, do one thing, and do it well. So the terminal emulator handles driving the screen, handling keys and doing the copy/paste, and the shell runs commands. This allows you to separate the terminal emulation from the command processor. You use something like Putty or an xterm to get access to the system, and you then run a shell such as bash or ksh through that access to run commands. I know I'm an old foagy, but this type of confusion between components on systems is part of the root of many of the problems with modern CLIs. This allows you to keep the same terminal emulation while changing the shell you want to use. The difference is that shells process commands, and the terminal emulation handles the presentation. You are aware that bash (at least on Linux) is a shell not a terminal emulator.
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