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Subject: [Discuss] The Register: Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner
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.

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