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> But in 90s these mechanisms were in infancy. It was normal for computers to auto-login and have no password at all, processes could each read entire memory on the machine.

Only in the home computing world, which is why people on Real Computers thought home computers were toys back then. Real Computers, running Linux/Unix and VMS and MVS, damn well did have the protections Wintendo didn't, and didn't mandate a reboot every forty-odd days, either. Microsoft didn't even begin to achieve parity until Windows XP or later, and Apple didn't until MacOS X.