A rote, also called a crwth, is an ancient instrument, a variety of lyre. It often, though not necessarily always, had six strings. The rote was of Anglo-Saxon make, and has been found at the 7th century ship burial at Sutton Hoo.
ROTE is a simple C library for VT102 terminal emulation. It allows the programmer to set up virtual 'screens' and send them data. The virtual screens will emulate the behavior of a VT102 terminal, interpreting escape sequences, control characters and such. The library supports ncurses as well so that you may render the virtual screen to the real screen when you need to.