Posts by dboddie

Xlibre fork lights a fire under long-dormant X.org development

MDI FTW?

"Wayland does not currently allow controlling window position. This means that when you open KiCad, it cannot remember where you last placed your windows."

Time to go old school, then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-document_interface

The successor to Research Unix was Plan 9 from Bell Labs

Re: The way Bell Labs networking was going

The short answer is that it's done via files in /net/udp. Of course, you're going to use libraries to manage those interactions. See https://p9f.org/magic/man2html/3/ip for the low level details.

Original Acorn Arthur project lead explains RISC OS genesis

Re: RISCiX

Talk to the folks in the stardot forums (http://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/). We are interested in all sorts of Acorn history jottings.