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by tosti 6 days ago
When I took a computer course in the early 2000s, the teacher said like "look, this had a desktop called workbench and it even has a recycle bin in f$#ing 1985."

Things could've so much better if upper management wasn't disfunctional.
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technothrasher 5 days ago
I loved my Amiga 2000, but AmigaOS was pretty late to the party with their trashcan. It came from the Xerox Star software in 1981, was ripped off by Apple in 1983, and by 1985 Commodore was just following the trend.
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tosti 5 days ago
Xerox workstations were pretty much unheard of. A few might've seen a Mac. But most people haven't seen trash can functionality until MS-Windows 95 came out.

Personally, I just love the sound of it. Modules were awesome and games continued using them until ~2001.

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