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Okay, but using an OS without memory protection to achieve this seems dangerous. What if a buggy program accidentally blows up their work? (do they somehow inst
by chris_7 10y ago
Okay, but using an OS without memory protection to achieve this seems dangerous. What if a buggy program accidentally blows up their work? (do they somehow install version control?)
- Retra 10y agoYou restore it from a backup.
- jfb 10y agoYou became conditioned to the state of the system. You would save before known problematic operations; you would have comprehensive backups. You adapted to the misfeatures of the underlying software. It's not much different, from a UX perspective, than when I was learning Unix and "rm -rf . [A-Z]*" was infuriatingly chalked up as "a learning experience".
- Doctor_Fegg 10y agoMacWrite Pro crashed every single time I opened Tetris. It was a great way of conditioning me out of time-wasting when I was supposed to be writing an article.
- 4ad 10y ago> using an OS without memory protection to achieve this seems dangerous Not more dangerous than back in the day when the old was the new. What we have now is better, sure, but people back then still wrote books and did good work.
- flukus 10y agoEasy, just dust of the floppy with a recent backup.
- Dylan16807 10y agoMemory protection won't stop corrupted saves. You'd just have to reboot sometimes after programs crash.