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		vlowther 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to wor... DOS, early Windows, and early MacOS worked more or less exactly that way. Somehow, we all survived.

kalleboo 5 days ago | [–]

Apple nearly didn't survive until they bought a company that made an OS that didn't work that way.

baq 5 days ago | [–]

MS Word had to be rewritten from ~scratch to get rid of a document losing crash. Yes, we survived, but at what cost?

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