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How Video Killed the Printer Star
Summary Printing terminals transitioned to video terminals in the 1970s due to screen advancements, enabling new applications like the screen editor vi. Termcap and curses addressed software compatibility issues stemming from varied terminal capabilities across systems. The 1980s brought PCs, workstations, and X terminals, revolutionizing computer interaction from plain text terminals, though terminal emulators were popular. Before there were modern…
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Verizon Just Killed Its Messaging App
Verizon subscribers who have been using the company’s Message+ texting app are now being forced to switch to an alternative, following the service’s discontinuation on Monday. The app is the latest victim in the move to cross-platform RCS, and while it’s probably for the best, loyal users are bemoaning the loss of some fan-favorite features. In a reddit thread on…
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Microsoft just killed the Windows 10 Beta Channel for good
Microsoft has shut down the Windows 10 Beta Channel and will move all enrolled Windows Insiders to the Release Preview Channel. This comes after the company reopened the Windows 10 beta channel in early June, releasing the first Beta build three years after the last such build was rolled out to Windows 10 Insiders in 2021. “To bring new features…
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Microsoft just killed the Windows 10 Beta Channel again
Microsoft has shut down the Windows 10 Beta Channel and will move all enrolled Windows Insiders to the Release Preview Channel. This comes after the company reopened the Windows 10 beta channel in early June, releasing the first Beta build three years after the last such build was rolled out to Windows 10 Insiders in 2021. “To bring new features…
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