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The shell yes. Lack of a decent terminal would sink it—besides the other reasons it is not suitable any longer... software support and security concerns.

Reply edit: Guess you could putty into Linux, but not worth the hassle at that point.




Oh right. I was writing spaghetti PHP in those days so never had use for a terminal, so I guess that is required context.


bash in mintty is pretty decent.

mintty can do some things better than many terminals on Linux, even: https://mintty.github.io/mintty-gnuplot.png


Believe I've seen that, come to think of it. Does a featureful version support XP?

How did they work around the console limitations of older Windows?




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