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An alternate universe where Amiga is the mainstream computing platform would be fascinating.

• praptak 2y ago
  The crappy 16-bit-legacy memory model of the PC was probably as costly as "the billion dollar mistake" with Java pointer semantics.
  • insom 2y ago
    Wasn't Hoare's "billion dollar mistake" back in Algol? We'd been suffering with it for 30 years before Java decided to include it.
    • ska 2y ago
      1965 according to a quote on his page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare