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[Discuss] The Register: Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner
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- From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 21:41:21 -0500
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On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 14:00:10 -0500 Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote: > P.S. Does X do things as files? I've only ever been a user, No. X11 is a display server and a network protocol stack. It is OS and architecture agnostic. X11 clients might do things as files, or they might not, but this is entirely separate from X11 itself. -- \m/ (--) \m/
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