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mattgreenrocks 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Macintosh before System 7

System 7/apps would crash from time to time. I think we just had lower standards then. IIRC Macs prior to OS X didn’t separate one process’ memory from another?

Doctor_Fegg 7 months ago [–]

Indeed. I lost several essays before figuring that Tetris and MacWrite Pro wouldn’t coexist.

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