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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It still amazes me how well thought out unix was for the era when computing was in its infancy. But I guess that is what you get with computer science nerds from Universities and a budget for development based on making a product the goal, not quarterly profit the goal.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    It's what you get when you design an OS for a mainframe computer that is accessed by many users sharing its resources.
    DOS was designed for single-user PC's with very limited processing power, memory and storage, and no access to networked drives. Lots of its hacks and limitations saved a few hundred bytes of memory, which was crucial at the time.

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