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Sure sounds like it was.

This is really more of a general purpose 2D drafting/drawing tool then a serious schematic capture tool.

Tools like KiCad, Eagle, OrCAD the schematic capture entry "the drawing part" is kinda the least interesting part of the program. While there is an art to nicely designed schematics, especially analog/RF, most schematics in industry for densely populated boards are mostly just lots of blobs with net references - as an input into the next step of board design and footprint management. Ie its more CAM than CAD.

Yes, but shapes are not usually random. Bars, cylinders, cubes, rectangles, squares and circles are everywhere.

While there are some exceptions, this is skewed in the modern industrial world. If we're making evolutionary scale arguments about sound perception it's a much tougher sell.

That still doesn't explain why those chord progressions became popular, and they far predate the late 20th century record industry, so it really isn't a very satisfying or informative explanation, even though it's not outright wrong (it's just a restatement of familiarity bias, which generalizes outside music).

I don’t remember any terminals that recognised soft (inline) flow control

XON/XOFF. The VT100, as well as many other contemporary terminals of the time did. Not uncommon at all.

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/terminal/vt100/EK...

Running hard realtime stuff in a user space that is designed to not provide useful guarantees related to hard deadlines is brave, but ultimately somewhat foolish.

So every VST/Virtual instrument in a DAW or for live performance should be running in the kernel? Because that's definitely a fresh take.