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nine_k on March 19, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Modern Turbo Vision 2.0

It also worked under certain assumptions.

- No concurrency whatsoever.

- No Unicode support.

- In particular, no wide characters support (Chinese, Japanese, emoji).

Not that these are unsurmountable difficulties. But they need to be addressed before jumping to use the good old ways.

stjohnswarts on March 20, 2022 [–]

Doesn't his comment about rewriting it answer all those questions though but keep the core of the principles of the software intact?

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