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> a pure GUI for IP/TCP

What does that actually mean? There are all kinds of systems which use a TCP link to produce a display on one end, with all kinds of different design compromises, made for different reasons and use cases.

If people had, by some miracle, standardised the web as a graphical format back in the early 90s by dictating that screens had to be 4:3 format with a particular minimum resolution, what would have happened to smartphones?




That brought back memories of trying to use AOL in the wrong screen resolution.




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