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For those of you that cut your teeth on graphical OSs and have never had to use a command-line terminal emulator, this article isn't for you. There is no Flash here, no OCD multi-tasking, cutting-and-pasting from one window to another. If the term "command line" reminds you more of the movie Tron than of something you actually use everyday, then perhaps you won't find much joy from reading the following post.

But for the rest of us that grew up when PC DOS first came into corporations and when mainframe programmers walked among us, you might enjoy this trip down memory lane.