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postexitus
on April 5, 2022
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The cult of Amiga and SGI, or why workstations mat...
what kind of low bar is that "never losing any files" - what files did you lose in other systems?
sgerenser
on April 6, 2022
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The contemporary consumer OSes of the time, MacOS 8 and Windows 95/98 were pretty crash prone back then. If you weren’t religious about hitting command-S as your worked it definitely wasn’t unusual to lose your work.
postexitus
on April 9, 2022
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Ok more like, never using unsaved work. I was horrified thinking some old school OSes ate files from FS left and right.
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