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A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal

A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal

rbanffy

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  • rbanffy
    I have the highest regard for these terse, but information-dense displays that enable humans to quickly grasp all information they need to do their jobs, and nothing more. This is also something avionics provide - a modern cockpit displays are a work of art in layering needed information for what is happening at the time, both the dense PFD and the much specific that communicate aircraft status.
  • mandevil
    The modern Terminal is based on a private fork of Chromium to give it the look and feel of a VT100 terminal, and integrate their private networking and security technologies. The BBT predates HTTP, and backwards compatibility is hugely important to the company- they have a museum where a second-generation Terminal from ~1985 shows the current news, because they are so dedicated to backwards compatibility that they still can support the 1985 hardware.
  • bbkane
    I wish that article showed what the display looks like instead of just the keyboard. Others here have mentioned the lovely information density; I'll have to search elsewhere to see it
  • Cider9986
    Have we made any progress on a cracked version?https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/8aiz67/how_...
  • helsinkiandrew
    Related: A look back: The Bloomberg Keyboardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17079033 (104 comments)
  • michaelastreiko
    Love how those dense screens make numbers checkable at a glance. Tiny shops still live that gap—bank lumps vs invoice lines—just without a dedicated terminal.
  • johnhamlin
    I did an internship in finance in college. Worked at a Bloomberg terminal that earned more money than me
  • mhh__
    It may be of interest to some that Bloomberg has an ocaml based DSL built in for pricing exotic derivatives.
  • nxobject
    The article has an image of terminal keyboard used by a legendary trader... the key-caps are immaculate; the letters haven't faded at all. Amazing. I wonder if they were double-shot...
  • graboid
    Does someone know any font that is similar to the closed-source Bloomberg terminal font? I really love that font.
  • Flex247A
    Any idea on what technologies/toolkits are used to build Bloomberg terminal?
  • UltraSane
    At $32,000 a year per person the Bloomberg Terminal is a deeply unfair advantage for the rich to get richer.
  • hangrybear666
    Zitron must get on this ASAP it will make his day
  • sophietaylor
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  • gitghxst
    shit I really loved this, was searching for the history of bloomberg these days. thanks for sharing