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Ansi Escape Code: Encyclopedia Ii - Ansi Escape Code - Examples
CSI 0 ; 6 8 ; "DIR" ; 13 p - This re-assigns the key F10 to send to the keyboard buffer the string "DIR" and ENTER, which ...
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Bulletin Board System: Encyclopedia - Bulletin Board System
A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, usi...
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Text User Interface: Encyclopedia Ii - Text User Interface - Tui Under Unix-like Systems
The advent of the curses library with Berkeley Unix created a portable and stable API for which to write TUIs. The ability to talk to var...
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Bulletin Board System: Encyclopedia Ii - Bulletin Board System - History
The first BBS, CBBS, went online on February 16, 1978 in Chicago, Illinois. The first BBS in the UK was in Hull, East Yorkshire, it opene...
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Bulletin Board System: Encyclopedia Ii - Bulletin Board System - History
The first BBS, CBBS, went online on February 16, 1978 in Chicago, Illinois.
With the original 110 and 300 baud modems of the early 1980s,...
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Bulletin Board System: Encyclopedia Ii - Bulletin Board System - Shareware
Much of the "Shareware" movement was started via sharing software through BBSes. A notable example was Phil Katz's PKARC (and later PKZIP...
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Bulletin Board System: Encyclopedia Ii - Bulletin Board System - Shareware
Much of the "Shareware" movement was started via sharing software through BBSes. A notable example was Phil Katz's PKARC (and later PKZIP...
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Bulletin Board System: Encyclopedia Ii - Bulletin Board System - Features
A typical BBS has:
A computer
One or more modems
One or more phone lines
A BBS software package
A sysop - system operator
Some BBSes a...
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