phigan  wrote:  
  > Terminal programs are utilities. Also, in order to use a proper news  
  > client, you need to use something like SLRN or TIN which you'd need to  
  > use software 80 columns for. Have you ever tried doing that on an SX64's  
  > screen? :). I'm typing through StrikeTerm2014 on a breadbin right now,  
  > in vi, reading stuff with slrn. Nobody else would put up with this kind  
  > of nonsense, though.  
    
  Absolutely I have not. For daily use, I have fairly modern laptops running  
  Fedora 44, FreeBSD 15.1 and OmniOS stable. The OmniOS laptop currently  
  serves as a virtualization platform, running Fedora Rawhide and Red Hat  
  Enterprise Linux 10.2 VMs.  
    
  Regarding retrocomputers, I do own quite a few but I really use  
  emulators when I want to play old 8-bit games. That Commodore  
  released C64 Ultimate is a good thing, though, because it  
  provides (near?) 100% accuracy and can be connected to modern  
  televisions using HDMI. So these hardware-based recreations  
  having a modern twist are really useful.  
    
  br,  
  KK  
    
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