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 |https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1642 
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 |Summary:                    DUMB terminal is not defined
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 | (0006270) ajosey (manager) - 2023-04-22 08:56
 | https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1642#c6270 
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 |The term dumb is one we are recommended to avoid in our style guide
 |regarding use of ableist language.
 |
 |3.1.7 Ableist Language
 |
 |When trying to achieve a friendly and conversational tone, problematic

Often i heard a friendly and conversational tone during the
slicing of the bodies of cattles or gooses (in the past), yet
everybody was looking only down.  They would not have heard the
"wait, but i am here" anyway.  References to the Tibetan Book of
the Dead possibly lead too far .. yet not too far.

 |ableist language may slip in. This can come in the form of figures of
 |speech and other turns of phrase. Be sensitive to your word choice,
 |especially when aiming for an informal tone. Ableist language includes
 |words or phrases such as crazy, insane, blind to or blind eye to, cripple,
 |dumb, and others. Choose alternative words depending on the context. 

Yet this is the established name for these kind of terminals for many
decades, and only this, no other one, everything else would need
to be invented, and distributed, and be used as appropriate, which
requires a lifetime.  And not mine.

  #?0|kent:unix-hist$ git grep -i dumb 1abc11ba34
  1abc11ba34:usr/dict/words:dumb
  1abc11ba34:usr/dict/words:dumbbell
  1abc11ba34:usr/doc/beginners/u3:and of course if you make a dumb mistake
  1abc11ba34:usr/doc/security:was rather dumb:
  1abc11ba34:usr/man/man7/term.7:dumb     terminals with no special features
  1abc11ba34:usr/src/games/backgammon.c:      printf( "Congratulations! You 
have just defeated a dumb machine.\n");
  1abc11ba34:usr/src/games/fish.c:        "The default is pretty dumb!",

  #?0|kent:unix-hist$ git describe 1abc11ba34
  Research-V7

  $ gl1 Research-V7
  commit 1abc11ba348fd70a5ba6392c2f2e141e16b78685 (tag: refs/tags/Research-V7, 
refs/remotes/origin/Research-Release)
  Merge: bbfde83347 dd1f4b5d3f
  Author:     Ken Thompson <[email protected]>
  AuthorDate: 1979-08-25 17:59:53 -0500
  Commit:     Ken Thompson <[email protected]>
  CommitDate: 1979-08-25 17:59:53 -0500

      Research V7 release
      Snapshot of the completed development branch

      Synthesized-from: v7

  t$ git grep -i dumb Research-V7~292
  Research-V7~292:.ref-Research-V6/usr/doc/secur/secur:is rather dumb:
  Research-V7~292:usr/man/man7/term.7:dumb        terminals with no special 
features

  #?0|kent:unix-hist$ git describe Research-V7~292
  Research-V6-217-gfbb78fc6b6

  #?0|kent:unix-hist$ gl1 Research-V7~292
  commit fbb78fc6b66ef268ed39f482c4ac0e10ed07f9fe
  Author:     Ken Thompson <[email protected]>
  AuthorDate: 1979-01-10 15:17:45 -0500
  Commit:     Ken Thompson <[email protected]>
  CommitDate: 1979-01-10 15:17:45 -0500

      Research V7 development
      Work on file usr/man/man7/term.7

      Co-Authored-By: Dennis Ritchie <[email protected]>
      Synthesized-from: v7

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

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