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Originally Posted by cromag
Yep, I did that. But by then the Amiga 3000 was my primary computer.
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I had little exposure to the Amiga. What I knew of it was interesting, but I had no call to deal with one.
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I did a lot of writing on it. I found the Alpha/graphic Windowing system very useful when I was at the keyboard, but I turned it off when I was on a terminal -- it took a long time to draw and re-draw. I did a lot of writing in the field on an Epson Geneva PX-8. Plugged it into an RS-232 and uploaded quickly when I was using the command line.
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Screen draws were reasonable on Wyse terminals emulating VT100s connected via a cable at 19,200 baud and the character mode FACE UI was usable. But I spent time hacking TERMCAP (the Unix terminal database) back in the day, doing things like trying to work around the "Magic Cookie glitch", on terminals where screen attributes took up a space, and could generally make things work. I had code in my .profile that looked at the TTY I was coming in on and set the $TERM variable appropriately.
I did do sysadmin chores from the command line, and largely still do. Under Windows, I use an open source application called
ConEmu which is a tabbed console app. It's possible to have multiple command lines open in tabs in the ConEmu window, and use several different shells. I have CMD.EXE, PowerShell, TCC-LE (a freeware lite character mode version of JP Software's Take Command GUI command interpreter, a successor to the old 4DOS COMMAND.COM replacement under MSDOS), and Win23 ports of Bash, tcsh, and zsh. I can have all of them open at once in ConEmu tabs, along with character mode apps. Fun, for suitable values of the term.
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Dennis