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by hulitu 987 days ago
Yet Domain OS was a distributed multiuser and multitasking system, with BSD and SYSV compatibility which run decent on 1989 hardware when x86 was almost only DOS and Windows 3.
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But did it do the things people wanted? Why have the complexity of a multiuser system on a single user PC? Why have multitasking when the system can barely run a single task competently?