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Telnet just sucks from a usability standpoint!

Telnet just sucks from a usability standpoint!

Posted Dec 28, 2011 13:19 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Telnet just sucks from a usability standpoint! by madscientist
Parent article: Merry Christmas from FreeBSD

Windows ships with a telnet client, but not an SSH client. Also, many devices (e.g. IOS based ones) ship with telnet servers installed, but not SSH. That's why telnet is still used.


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