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I keep advocating that all these are kind of band aids, the right approach is to do the CLI as many non-UNIX OSes have done it, not by keeping VT100 hardware alive virtually.

In Android's case, a Java or Kotlin written Terminal app, exposing CLI capabilities, taking advantage of Android's APIs.

Even assuming the Terminal app works great, it is still only usable for playing, unless I am able to plug a keyboard, mouse and external monitor to a phone, and I have used both DEX and Windows Continuum in the past.

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They are also working on a more full-fledged desktop mode in Android 16 QPR 1. Obviously, you can also plug a keyboard, phone, and external monitor. Pixel 8 and 9 support DP-Alt.

I am not sure why VT100 emulation is relevant in this context. Removing it will break a lot of existing Unix/Linux terminal applications and the point of this emulator is to bring the wealth of existing applications (as well as X11/Wayland applications) to Android.

[pjmlp]

Which naturally requires being a Pixel phone, and not something that works across the ecosystem.

Exactly because we should stop dragging UNIX all over place, and embrace new computing models, the world already has enough UNIX clones always redoing the same stuff over and over again, as if Lion's book had been published last week.