Posted Sep 27, 2013 13:14 UTC (Fri) by laf0rge (subscriber, #6469)
In reply to: 30 years of GNU by rvfh
Parent article: 30 years of GNU
I think he was actually talking about serially-attached terminals (vt100/vt220/etc.) and something like terminfo to support text output on all types of terminals, where software doesn't need to be written with a specific terminal (later: terminal emulator) in mind.