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user-inactivated  ·  4048 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?

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