Talk:talk (software)

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There's a clone of this on windows computers called winchat Its on windows xp and 2000, not sure about 9x. basicly you can talk to anyone in a Windows network (no ip). Bawolff 00:53, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Winchat is not compatible with the unix talk protocol, so it is not a true clone. There is a windows implementation called wintalk however MartijnPennings (talk) 13:46, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Curses Technology[edit]

Curses technology? Is that a typo, or something I've never heard of? Sounds like what someone does when his hard drive crashes. Ccrrccrr 01:30, 6 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I decided that must be a typo for "cursor control commands" and fixed it. With apologies to those who enjoy funny typos...Ccrrccrr 01:45, 6 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Curses is basically a library which allows text to be written to the screen easily. It abstracts objects like menus and borders as well. Heavy bolter 02:28, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dates?[edit]

The article could do with less vague dates. Can anyone provide them? 86.149.133.230 (talk) 20:56, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Where is the used protocol described?[edit]

--RokerHRO (talk) 13:23, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why 'was'?[edit]

I am still using talk in it's described purpose/usage, and so are my communication partners. Why 'was' talk? 62.226.197.126 (talk) 20:30, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Presumably because most people are not. Orbixx (talk) 02:20, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

10 chars / second[edit]

While the teletype was fed data at 110 baud, it was only 10 characters per second, not 11, because there were two stop bits after the byte of data. I don't know of teletypes running faster than that. Unless someone else does, the number 11 should probably change to 10 in the main page.

Alan Larson (talk) 23:59, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'd rather it had a citation to verify the number as being ten. In fact, it probably should have one for the number being eleven, too. No idea where to find that, but it can't hurt to leave a reminder 155.210.238.19 (talk) 12:56, 13 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]