• superkret@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    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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      2 months ago

      I guess i was meaning compared to DOS but modern Windows, where stupid stuff is broken, and they care more about ads than creating a clean OS