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vlowtheryesterday at 7:37 PM2 repliesview on HN

DOS, early Windows, and early MacOS worked more or less exactly that way. Somehow, we all survived.


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baqtoday at 7:47 AM

MS Word had to be rewritten from ~scratch to get rid of a document losing crash. Yes, we survived, but at what cost?

kallebootoday at 1:35 AM

Apple nearly didn't survive until they bought a company that made an OS that didn't work that way.