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To be fair, a list of things obscure in 2022 will naturally be weighted to dated software that became obscure with age. I'm surprised to see xterm on the list, but I guess most people are using more modern terminals, or urxvt if they prefer it retro.



The obscure part of xterm for me was the built in tektronix (vector) terminal emulation. I remember digging up a .dvi viewer that could display on tektronix by drawing a _lot_ of horizontal lines.


That is badass. Tex lives on but DVI need not.


Still using xterm, thank you very much. :)




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