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

[Kent Borg]

On 2/20/24 11:15, Daniel C. wrote:
> Which corner exactly have we coded ourselves into?

That's what /I/ was wondering. It recounted some history, and then said 
that Wayland doesn't do things as files. Sounds like the author had a 
title, was proud s/he knew who originally said that history-repeating 
cliché, pounded away for a few paragraphs, and then ran out of steam.

-kb

P.S. Does X do things as files? I've only ever been a user, occasionally 
tunneling X windows over ssh tunnels, and more recently pissed that 
Firefox doesn't participate in the middle-mouse paste of X. (I filed a 
notch in the edge of my laptop so I can click the middle of the track 
pad by touch. Otherwise it takes a flashlight to find the faint grey on 
black line that marks the middle.)