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lol - well done!

I've often teased my "green screen" clients that I could rewrite all their software to run in a browser. (It's not really that much of a stretch.)

What would really be impressive on OP's webpage would be F keys and Esc that worked as advertised in the text. It's really not that hard to coopt them from the browser.



There are very strong parallels between a web app without Ajax/Comet and a 3270 terminal application.


Do you remember when Netscape Navigator used to include a 3270 emulator?


Sorry, I'm too young for that.


Heh :-)

Well, it did; the similarities between the web sans AJAX (which we just called "the web" back then!) and 3270 were noticed by the early Netscape developers too.


Well... I miss my 3278 font a lot. I can't find anything that's really close enough. I remember the numbers were slightly taller than letters.

I wonder if someone has the original pixel maps floating around.




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