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Re:Is there a maximum size for Windows clipboard data? by jrochkind1 on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @12:25PM (#31669732)
MacOS clipboard is also pretty good, I'm often pleasantly surprised by it. I don't use Windows enough in the right ways to compare them, I wouldn't be shocked if Windows is even better.

But even if old, it's still notable that such an old concept/technology works so well, and there are few newer inter-process communication methods that work as reliably or with as good UX!

Who invented the "clipboard", Xerox PARC? No, wikipedia just credits two individuals, Pentti Kanerva and Larry Tesler .

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Re:Is there a maximum size for Windows clipboard data? by Aloha on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @01:42PM (#31671177)
They're about equal, MacOS generally is better about letting my copy a thing in one application and paste the whole object in another. Windows however has RDP, which I've used as a file transfer mechanism by base64 encoding files, I thought about writing software that would use it as a half duplex communications channel.
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Re:Is there a maximum size for Windows clipboard data? by jrochkind1 on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @01:46PM (#31671267)
Mac also has something that lets you copy/paste clipboard across machines (including between iOS and MacOS), but I don't know how it works technically and haven't actually used it myself.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/copy-and-paste-betw...

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