Re:Plan 9 Is a Uniquely Complete Operating System
by nrr on Sunday July 28, 2024 @12:48AM
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The irony is that Acorn's RISC OS arguably came the closest to this ideal with any pragmatism. The way that file choosers worked effectively allowed one to pipe a saved file from one application to another and then do it again through the same workflow in the next application and so on.
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Re:Plan 9 Is a Uniquely Complete Operating System
by foul on Sunday July 28, 2024 @03:56PM
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This kind of IPC lurks in every major OS, drag to an app window is supported by Xorg Mac and Windows.
Re:Plan 9 Is a Uniquely Complete Operating System
by nrr on Sunday July 28, 2024 @05:01PM
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I suppose this is IPC in the loosest possible sense? It's more like GetOpenFileName() and GetSaveFileName() in Win32 but getting handed a HANDLE outright instead of an LPCSTR to pass to CreateFile() later.