Re: Move banner to games

In message <20101007154058.E68D71CC41_at_ptavv.es.net>, "Kevin Oberman" writes:
> > Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:49:43 +0200
> > From: Daniel Braniss <danny_at_cs.huji.ac.il>
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> > 
> > > In message <4CADC453.7010404_at_googlemail.com>, "army.of.root" writes:
> > > > On 10\10\02 18:48, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> > > > > On 10/2/10, Brandon Gooch<jamesbrandongooch_at_gmail.com>  wrote:
> > > > >> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Paul B Mahol<onemda_at_gmail.com>  wrot
> e:
> > > > >>> Hi,
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> I see no point to have it in usr/bin.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Cool! This is the first time I've heard of this program! How come th
> e
> > > > >> folks at my university who manage the line printers have never let m
> e
> > > > >> on to this?!
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Ahh -- wait a sec -- I'm beginning to see your point about the whole
> > > > >> "move it to games thing"...
> > > > >>
> > > > >> -Brandon aka "The Green Bar Bandit"
> > > > >>
> > > > >
> > > > > NetBSD and OpenBSD have this version in games and horizontal version
> > > > > of banner in usr/bin.
> > > > >
> > > > > I see no point to have this program(s) in base at all.
> > > > >
> > > > > I will just stop here.
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > A horizontal version of banner could be nice for motd etc.
> > > > 
> > > > I like banner.
> > > > It makes me smile and think that FreeBSD is a cosy place to be.
> > > 
> > > It's been in the base for decades. People used it to print banners on 
> > > reports, before laser and  ink jet printers were around, when tractor fee
> d 
> > > printers ruled. Banner was more than just a game. People used it for 
> > > production work. I suppose you could still use it for its intended purpos
> e 
> > > today however with the graphical tools we have today it's a little archai
> c. 
> > > Having said that, it doesn't take up a lot of space and should probably 
> > > remain where it is.
> > > 
> > > BTW, I'm of the age where I did use it and tools like it (on the IBM 
> > > mainframe) for real work.
> > 
> > ah memories, I had the walls of my office covered with pi with some very lo
> ng
> > precision :-)
> 
> I'm so sorry. 
> 
> I'm more prone to remember the ASCII rendering of the artwork of rather
> long images from a popular magazine which would certainly (and properly)
> be unacceptble in the workplace today. :-)

I can recall my first exposure to ASCII art. I was 17 in Computing Science 
class in high school. A friend had brought in some artwork his brother had 
printed on the mainframe at the University of Alberta. The source was a 
Fortran program with a huge number of punched cards as input. It certainly 
wouldn't be accepted anywhere here either.

What I found quite intriguing was the ASCII art produced by arcane single 
line APL programs. You could pack a lot of function into a very few bytes 
of code.


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Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert_at_komquats.com>
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