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"Terminal is the core of all development that’s ever been done in the history of computing."

... my high school hypercard stacks beg to differ...

You took the words out of my mouth. Oh and my HP48 has done many hours as a primary computation device.

I also learned to program with my HP48GX and my HP49G. When we couldn't imagine we would have smartphones, we already had programmable computers in our pockets :-)

Yes and bar the internet connectivity and the phone part, the HP48 series are far more powerful than any smartphone as a computer!

http://my.opera.com/vladrodr/blog/2008/11/11/convertir-progr... <-- says it all

Well the end-machines that most people sat at were still technically 'terminal's. That is, after all, where the name came from, is it not? :P

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