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   Kenneth Finnegan (kwf@social.afront.org)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 11:45:14 JST Kenneth Finnegan

   Imagine you're working on a product with an RS-232 user interface.

   Try and come up with as many different ways to render a backspace as possible. Go.

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     tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 11:45:12 JST tom jennings

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     CR then retype all the chars. This is a common technique.

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     tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 11:45:35 JST tom jennings

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     Backspace, as in cursor motion? Or to erase the character to the left of the cursor? Eg overwrite with a space or underscore (software cursor). I've done blinking cursors that way, mostly in memory mapped displays.

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