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In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)

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412 points conanxin | 1 comments | 27 Jul 24 06:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source
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pavlov ◴[27 Jul 24 09:56 UTC] No.41085505[source]▶
The CLI has a massive blind spot in today’s operating systems: it knows nothing useful about events.

Yet events are the primary way anything happens on a computer, whether it’s a user system or a server.

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1. johnklos ◴[27 Jul 24 17:46 UTC] No.41088178[source]▶
I can't even understand this. How does the CLI relate to events? Are you saying that all servers secretly have an invisible GUI and handle events there?

This just seems like an odd non sequitur.