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Re:Why Google Did Android by monktastic1 on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:34AM (#22290607)
Wait, how did this work? Surely not every typed word was issued as a command.
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Re:Why Google Did Android by donio on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:55AM (#22290838)
That was indeed the case. A better use for it was running "telnetd" which was how we got root access to the device initially.
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Re:Why Google Did Android by scintill76 on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:55AM (#22290834)
I think it was more like every keystroke was sent to a virtual terminal as well as the GUI, so <enter>reboot<enter> would reboot.
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Re:Why Google Did Android by praptak on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:54AM (#22290829)
Every typed word between two CRs.
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