What (who) is talk mode - definition

ENGLISH POP AND POST-ROCK GROUP

Talk talk; Talk talk discography; Talk Talk (band)

talk mode

<chat> Using a talk system. E.g., "B1FF had me in talk mode for hours last night. I had to bring his box down just to get him to shut up." The (1980s?) term now is as dated as talk itself which has been largely replaced by chat. [Jargon File] (1998-01-19)

ntalk

STANDARD UNIX UTILITY

Unix talk; Talk (Unix); Ytalk; Ntalk; UNIX talk; Phone (software)

<chat> ("new talk") An update of the Unix "talk" program, old versions of "talk" being referred to as "old talk". New talk and old talk are generally incompatible, and attempts to get them to communicate result in entirely unhelpful error messages. On most modern Unix systems, the program "talk" is new talk, with some SunOS versions being a notable and annoying exception to this. (1997-09-11)

YTalk

STANDARD UNIX UTILITY

Unix talk; Talk (Unix); Ytalk; Ntalk; UNIX talk; Phone (software)

Version: V3.0 Patch Level 1. <networking, tool> A multi-user chat program by Britt Yenne <yenne@austin.eds.com>. YTalk works almost exactly like the standard Unix talk program and even communicates with the same talk daemon(s), but YTalk supports multiple connections. Multiple user names may be given as command-line arguments, in the form "name#tty@host" where the optional "#tty" specifies a particular tty. YTalk is able to communicate with both existing versions of Unix talk daemons. Once connected, typing escape gives access to a menu of commands to add or delete users, trace to a file, or set options. If run under the {X Window System}, YTalk will use separate X windows for each user in the conversaton, otherwise it will split the terminal screen between them. E-mail: <ytalk@austin.eds.com>. [FTP?] (1995-04-04)

Wikipedia

Talk Talk

Talk Talk were an English band formed in 1981, led by Mark Hollis (vocals, guitar, piano), Lee Harris (drums), and Paul Webb (bass). The group achieved early chart success with the synth-pop singles "Talk Talk" (1982), "It's My Life", and "Such a Shame" (both 1984) before moving towards a more experimental approach informed by jazz and free improvisation in the mid-1980s, pioneering what became known as post-rock. Talk Talk achieved widespread critical success in Europe and the UK with the singles "Life's What You Make It" (1985) and "Living in Another World" (1986); in 1988, they released their fourth album Spirit of Eden, which was critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful.

Friction with the band's label, EMI, resulted in legal action and countersuing. Webb departed, and the band switched to Polydor for their final studio album, 1991's Laughing Stock, but split soon afterwards. Singer Mark Hollis released one solo album in 1998 before retiring from the music industry; he died in 2019. The band's founding bass player and drummer, Paul Webb and Lee Harris, played in several bands together; long-term collaborator Tim Friese-Greene continued in the business as a musician and producer.

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