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post-ittoday at 2:39 PM1 replyview on HN

Saving also often took a long time, so people didn't do it very often.


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wongarsutoday at 3:59 PM

Certainly depended on the software. But disks were slow back then, and a save would commonly block the entire UI. If your software produced big files you could wait for an inconvenient amount of time