The lost tape of UNIX V4 was found, I gave it a spin and was amazed how fast you feel familiar using it.

  • non_burglar@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Vi is unintuitive and annoying to me.

    Totally fair, I only learned because I was forced to.

    Why wouldn’t it work over telnet when it works via SSH?

    Serial consoles feed back information one line at a time, so no curses interfaces. No arrow keys, just hjkl. Anything that needs to count characters and columns (like position-based cursor editors like nano) won’t work over telnet.

    in my console, or rather terminal

    A serial console and a terminal aren’t the same thing.

    If you like micro, use micro. I don’t care.

    • med@sh.itjust.works
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      22 hours ago

      I once had to edit and dump a Cisco config from a 10 switch stack over 9600 baud.

      It took ages, and then I realised my fancy new terminal still had a default scrollback limit set, and had to do it again.

      Actual torture.