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		rramadass on Feb 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ANSI escape codes (2019) This brings back memories. In the beginning of my career (early 90's) i implemented an entire UI for a Personnel Information System in COBOL on a Mainframe (CDC Cyber 180/840A) using ANSI escape sequences. Please don't judge me :-)

mixmastamyk on Feb 4, 2021 [–]

I judge it awesome.

rramadass on Feb 10, 2021 | [–]

Thanks, i learnt a lot from that experience (my first job, sole developer, figure out a solution and get things done etc.). It was on those old monochrome visual display terminals and instead of using system specific languages/toolkits i hit upon this solution and it worked out.

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