Subj : Re: RIP 1.54 and telnet
To   : Nightfox
From : tenser
Date : Sat Dec 17 2022 08:31:52

On 15 Dec 2022 at 09:21a, Nightfox pondered and said...
 
 Ni>   Re: RIP 1.54 and telnet
 Ni>   By: Oli to Utopian Galt on Thu Dec 15 2022 12:28 pm
 Ni> 
 Ni>  Ol> Isn't RIP unbelievable ugly by today standards? I vaguely remember th
 Ni>  Ol> once did run a BBS with RIP support for a short time. It was fun, bec
 Ni>  Ol> it was new. But HTML was much more interesting. Maximus 3 also suppor
 Ni>  Ol> RIP (never tested it).
 Ni> 
 Ni> I remember RIP looked a bit like EGA graphics.  IMO it wasn't too bad. 
 Ni> It was a step up from ANSI, at least.  You could probably argue that
 Ni> ANSI looks even more "unbelievably ugly" by today's standards. :)

Of course, it's aesthetics, but I'd argue that it is: what
makes it cool is the retro feel.  Moreover, "ANSI" refers to
the terminal control sequences; what people usually mean when
they say "ANSI" in the BBS community is the CP437 glyph set
with color.

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