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The computer-terminal dynamically-redefined-character-set (DRCS) technology could be used to create sprites.

I.e. the spites would be part of the soft-character-set.

And it could be extended to support other file data formats besides just sixels.

(The computer-terminal dynamically‐redefined‐character‐set (DRCS) technology is similar in idea of a unicode private‐use‐area.)

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@jr

An important thing about many #ComputerTerminal is that — a lot of them (probably most) could only display text!, and only in a single color!

(Although I suppose it is 2 colors, if you also count the dark color of the screen.)

(And also, the 1 color of different Computer Terminals could be a different color from each other.)

So the Computer Terminal world was very monochromatic & text oriented!

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@jr

Back in the 1990s it was not uncommon to still see Computer Terminals in use.

A #ComputerTerminal kind of looks like a computer; but they aren't computers.

You can kind of think of them as a combined monitor & keyboard.

They connected to a computer located somewhere else.

Sometimes many Computer Terminals connected to the same computer.