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Operating systems on retrocomputers generally.
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Single level file directory
Yes. Several. Consider, for example Dec RSTS/E. This was a flat directory structure.
Now, to be clear, the system had separate accounts. So, each user would have their own account/directory. Very sim …
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How should we interpret Dave Cutler's criticism of Unix?
While I am sure that the merits of Cutler's stated "low opinion" could
be debated, I'm interested to better understand exactly what he was
referring to here. There's no citation, and I haven't …
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Why was preemptive multitasking so slow in coming to consumer OS's?
Memory protection.
It's not that preemptive multi-tasking is expensive, or hard. It's not. It's easy. It costs (or can cost) essentially the same as cooperative multitasking. You have to save process …
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