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> …the opaqueness was not conducive to creating a culture of power users and "semi-developers" unlike the PCs of the time. Utter nonsense, as anyone who has ev

• userbinator 8y ago
  ...so you have to go get additional software in order to do that, instead of being able to use what comes with the OS? That's already going to turn off a bunch of users. In those days, PC users were entering Asm code published in magazines into DEBUG (which came with MS-DOS), creating real application binaries.