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Vintage (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by ekZepp@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] SirHery@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah a 9 pin dsub. Still used widely in industry applications and other Fields. Edit: just saw that these were used for mouse or keyboard input, wth. This is truly old.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I also wonder, why do we marry the mouse to X11/? Could ease the use of the tty tools too!