Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Date: 4 Jun 2025 18:14:35 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <101gt61$1s439$2@dont-email.me> <101j4nq$2udcb$2@dont-email.me> <101jq1q$36qt0$1@dont-email.me> <101jur7$386sv$1@dont-email.me> <101mfd2$3tnqt$2@dont-email.me> <101mn1e$3vdni$1@dont-email.me> <101p7v9$otht$4@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Ps4pUIOGmoiVnd4T0aqXSwQV4sHVoJ3Bb8XTZi0YG6EKz0iIiH Cancel-Lock: sha1:EjX+EMSd66dSqWoTxqwQVxAQQ6c= sha256:BmyUb64XRTXcJRbKxQiSamvKXKZH4q86vLd4k8IZnc8= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 06:42:48 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code: > >> On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 11:41:34 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote: >> >>> You very well may be one of only a handful of folks left to even have >>> a hardware terminal setup and operational. >> >> I haven't seen/used one since the early '80s. > > Well do I remember the beloved VT-100. A yard deep and heavy as hell. > And KED, the keypad editor for it, attached to a PDP-11. That was a step up from the ADM-3A that put the D in 'dumb'. I don't know what the timeline was but curses needed a terminal that could handle the ANSI sequences so I assume they were contemporaries. We used an early version of db_VISTA that had a management interface called ida that was used curses. Life was grand until Windows removed ANSI.SYS. DOSBox to the rescue. I never worked with Raima's later products but db_VISTA was more sophisticated than dBase but never was as popular. afaik there is no connection to VistaDB for .NET.