idea--thule 853 B

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  1. id: 'idea--thule'
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  3. The terminal is old and crappy: this is not a thing that needs to
  4. be elaborated on. However, most of the 'modern alternatives', in
  5. trying to improve on the terminal, improve away most of the advantages
  6. of a terminal.
  7. Thule (formerly `GBU`) is a hypothetical UI system that stands
  8. somewhere between a terminal and window manager, but one that attempts
  9. to sidestep many of the problems with other computer UI systems. In
  10. particular, it builds on top of a relatively simple UNIX substrate,
  11. without trying to reinvent _too_ much elsewhere.
  12. It consists of a protocol more than an implementation, so that it is
  13. easy to reimplement elsewhere in many forms.
  14. related:
  15. - name: idea--thule-architecture
  16. why: The basic architecture
  17. - name: idea--thule-alternatives
  18. why: Problems with similar systems