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by bee_rider 458 days ago
The downside to all that was software releases happened once every year (or longer). Which, was it actually all that bad, but let’s not be completely wooed by the green looking grass on the other side. There were long delays between new features or bug fixes.
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Yes, the upside of the contemporary on-line software distribution is clear. No question about this. "The good old days" :-) reference was only about the comprehensive and ordered documentation that often used to come with the physically shipped software medium.