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user-inactivated · 4134 days ago · link · · parent · post: Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy of OS/2
- OS/2 let you move a window without bringing it to the front. That's the only thing I miss.
Focus-follows-mouse and click-to-raise could give you something like that in X window managers that let you pick their focus policy.
- Surely someone has posted In the Beginning was the Command Line by now. Has any computer essay from the last century held up so well?
- The Rise of "Worse is Better"
- I believe that worse-is-better, even in its strawman form, has better survival characteristics than the-right-thing, and that the New Jersey approach when used for software is a better approach than the MIT approach.