Saving did take time, but multitasking was a rarity, as was multithreading. Machines only had so much spare cpu and ram, too. I'd expect autosave to prevent t

Saving did take time, but multitasking was a rarity, as was multithreading. Machines only had so much spare cpu and ram, too. I'd expect autosave to prevent typing, which would bogart the workflow. I can envision doing quick incremental saves, maybe, but then you'd probably get jittery behaviour. If we're talking mid 80s, something like the c64 would need assembly to handle anything like that I'd think. I remember writing a BBS in basic, and just typing for an afternoon and running out of ram. I had to create separate modules for the up/download area, the message board, file transfer, and so on, all loaded off of... there was a commodore 1M floppy drive I used.