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The htop process viewer using the "MC" color theme. This is a color theme based on the Midnight Commander file manager, which on its turn is inspired by Norton Commander for MS-DOS, which uses the typical color scheme of DOS apps of the era such as MS-DOS Edit, Turbo Pascal, etc: white text on blue background, yellow highlights, black-on-cyan menu and title bars. It's definitely a vibe.

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The htop process viewer using the "MC" color theme. This is a color theme based on the Midnight Commander file manager, which on its turn is inspired by Norton Commander for MS-DOS, which uses the typical color scheme of DOS apps of the era such as MS-DOS Edit, Turbo Pascal, etc: white text on blue background, yellow highlights, black-on-cyan menu and title bars. It's definitely a vibe.
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Hisham (hisham_hm@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 03:14:48 JST Hisham

fun piece of #htop trivia: I don't think I've ever seen an htop screenshot use this color theme (and neither do I use it), but from the very first version that supported themes, I've included this very MS-DOS-inspired "MC" theme as a tribute to @Migueldeicaza's Midnight Commander. MC's builtin editor "mcedit" was _fundamental_ to me when I first got into to #Linux back in... err, 1999?
The first versions of htop from 2004 to 2006 were all written in mcedit!

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