[geeks] Hmmm.. food for thought...

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Tue Feb 19 12:42:22 CST 2002


[ On Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 09:52:39 (-0600), Bill Bradford wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Hmmm.. food for thought...
>
> I love my Mac; I just wish they'd rewrite Terminal.app from the ground up
> and FIX IT.  Text rendering problems, weird emulation, etc.  It *works*, but
> not *well*.  Hell, putty on a wintel box does a better job. 8-(

All OS X users I know think it blows xterm right out of the box, and
I've never seen any bugs, not even when resizing windows.  I don't know
anyone who's complained about emulation problems either, though libcurses
can hide a lot of them if it doesn't use some features.

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