[jjav]

Indeed. For anyone who grew up in the industry after the Internet was widely available, it might be unnatural to visualize how much effort was spent on making sure the code is correct before shipping.

Shipping meant producing that gold master build and sending it off to a floppy replication service and then got distributed to the store shelves. That 1.0 version was frozen until you'd ship a new version a year or more later. There was no second chance for that release, code had to be as close to perfect as possible, first time out.