Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 19:01:56 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Amancio's tv program with capture! Message-ID: <199601250831.TAA29877@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199601250653.HAA11635@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Jan 25, 96 07:53:40 am
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Luigi Rizzo stands accused of saying: > > You probably didn't mean an xterm... imagine videoconferencing in > > ASCII art. 8-). > > I did exactly mean that: I was really impressed by the quality of > your ascii drawing! > > And, there are advantages in using ascii: faces are all the same, > moving lips just require to flip a couple of chars: > > ______ ______ > ,/------\. ,/------\. > ] o o [ ] o o [ > | / | | / | > \ == / \ -- / > \____/ \____/ This reminds me of a really atrocious old Mac terminal program whose one claim to fame was interpreting the output from online chat sessions, animating a set of faces onscreen and attempting to speak the words. *ahem*. I'll shut up now 8) > Luigi -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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