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by vlowther 182 days ago
DOS, early Windows, and early MacOS worked more or less exactly that way. Somehow, we all survived.
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kalleboo 181 days ago
Apple nearly didn't survive until they bought a company that made an OS that didn't work that way.
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baq 181 days ago
MS Word had to be rewritten from ~scratch to get rid of a document losing crash. Yes, we survived, but at what cost?
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