alt Hacker News> They don't need GPUs to render, megabytes of RAM to run
They do these days, because you still need a terminal emulator and those are then basically GUIs in themselves. Ain't the 80s anymore :^)
> They don't need GPUs to render, megabytes of RAM to run
They do these days, because you still need a terminal emulator and those are then basically GUIs in themselves. Ain't the 80s anymore :^)
I still have quite a few systems which doesn't have a GUI attached to it, and I access them via a pure console.
Most, if not all these systems have Matrox G200 or similar low end 2D integrated graphics which are just there to see the text during boot, nothing else. I sometimes SSH from these systems to my own systems to use TUI or CLI tools.
If I want to go a step further. We have a couple of real VT320s.
Working at a datacenter has it perks, it seems. :^)