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  2. Text-based user interface - Wikipedia

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    Some file managers implement a TUI (here: Midnight Commander) Vim is a very widely used TUI text editor. In computing, text-based user interfaces (TUI) (alternately terminal user interfaces, to reflect a dependence upon the properties of computer terminals and not just text), is a retronym describing a type of user interface (UI) common as an early form of human–computer interaction, before ...

  3. Command-line interface - Wikipedia

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    Screenshot of a sample Bash session in GNOME Terminal 3, Fedora 15 Screenshot of Windows PowerShell 1.0, running on Windows Vista. A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with a computer program by inputting lines of text called command lines.

  4. Unix-like - Wikipedia

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    Evolution of Unix and Unix-like systems, starting in 1969. A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X, *nix or *NIX) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, although not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.

  5. Unix - Wikipedia

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    Developer: Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna at Bell Labs: Written in: C and assembly language: OS family: Unix: Source model: Historically proprietary software, while some Unix projects (including BSD family and illumos) are open-source

  6. Monolithic kernel - Wikipedia

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    Structure of monolithic kernel, microkernel and hybrid kernel-based operating systems A monolithic kernel is an operating system architecture with the entire operating system running in kernel space.

  7. Lynx (web browser) - Wikipedia

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    Lynx was a product of the Distributed Computing Group within Academic Computing Services of the University of Kansas. [7] [8] It was initially developed in 1992 by a team of students and staff at the university (Lou Montulli, Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac) as a hypertext browser used solely to distribute campus information as part of a Campus-Wide Information System [9] and for browsing the ...

  8. Software - Wikipedia

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    The integrated circuit is an essential invention to produce modern software systems. [2]The first use of the word software is credited to mathematician John Wilder Tukey in 1958. [3]

  9. Text-based game - Wikipedia

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    Strictly speaking, text-based means employing an encoding system of characters designed to be printable as text data. [1]: 54 As most computers only read binary code, encoding formats are typically written in such, where a bit is the smallest unit of data that has two possible values and each combination of bits represents a byte.