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MacOS clipboard is also pretty good, I'm often pleasantly surprised by it. I don't use Windows enough in the right ways to compare them, I wouldn't be shocked i
by jrochkind1 4y ago
MacOS clipboard is also pretty good, I'm often pleasantly surprised by it. I don't use Windows enough in the right ways to compare them, I wouldn't be shocked if Windows is even better.
But even if old, it's still notable that such an old concept/technology works so well, and there are few newer inter-process communication methods that work as reliably or with as good UX!
Who invented the "clipboard", Xerox PARC? No, wikipedia just credits two individuals, Pentti Kanerva and Larry Tesler .
- Aloha 4y agoThey're about equal, MacOS generally is better about letting my copy a thing in one application and paste the whole object in another. Windows however has RDP, which I've used as a file transfer mechanism by base64 encoding files, I thought about writing software that would use it as a half duplex communications channel.
- jrochkind1 4y agoMac also has something that lets you copy/paste clipboard across machines (including between iOS and MacOS), but I don't know how it works technically and haven't actually used it myself. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/copy-and-paste-between-devices-mchl70368996/mac https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/copy-and-paste-betw...