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by hulitu 752 days ago
> You can't compare an OS from 22 years ago to an OS from today.

Yes, because the today's OS looks much worse.

Apollo Domain OS was a distributed, multiuser, multitasking OS (actually 3: Aegis, BSD and SYS5R3) which run on 4 MB of RAM in 1988. Today windows is strugling with 16 GB.