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> Computing in the 90s meant hitting ctrl-s every 5 seconds because you never knew when the application you were using was going to crash. That was in the Wind
by justinclift 6mo ago
> Computing in the 90s meant hitting ctrl-s every 5 seconds because you never knew when the application you were using was going to crash.
That was in the Windows world. Maybe in the Mac world too?
No so much in the *nix world.
Windows seems to have improved its (crash) reliability since then though, which I suppose is nice. :)
- kgwgk 6mo agoAnd yet the word "crash" appears quite often in The UNIX-HATERS Handbook: https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
- justinclift 6mo agoYep, it's not surprising that a book called something HATERS Handbook would be pretty focused on the negatives, even if they're rare. ;)