• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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    1 day ago

    They addressed a single-user OS at the time. Abstraction like this at the time worked. It wasn’t like these machines were expected to be able to do more.

    Legacy stuff just kind of sucks.

    I’d say we probably have 86DOS to thank for it.