Talk (software)
| talk | |
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| Command-line Unix "talk", using a split screen user interface, was popular in the 1980s and early 1990s. | |
| Operating system | Unix, Unix-like, V | 
| Platform | Cross-platform | 
talk is a Unix text chat program, originally allowing messaging only between the users logged on to one multi-user computer—but later extended to allow chat to users on other systems.
Although largely superseded by IRC and other modern systems, it is still included with most Unix-like systems today, including Linux, BSD systems and macOS.