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<p>be much simpler and faster than one using an <a href="page.php?w=X_Window_System">X</a> toolkit.</p>

<p><big> History </big></p>
<p>The first curses library was written by <a href="page.php?w=Ken_Arnold">Ken Arnold</a> and originally released with <a href="page.php?w=Berkeley_Software_Distribution">BSD</a> UNIX, where it was used for several games, most notably <a href="page.php?w=Rogue_%28computer_game%29">Rogue</a>. Some improvements were made to the BSD library in the 1990s as "4.4BSD" curses, e.g., to provide more than one type of video highlighting.</p><p>
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