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rmah on Feb 5, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple’s declining software quality

Jeez, you're talking about something designed and built in 1982-1983 (over 30 years ago) and meant to run on something with 128KB of RAM with no hard drive and a 400KB floppy disk.

You try fitting all that plus a GUI those constraints.

What's amazing is that it had the features it had and that it worked at all.

i336_ on Feb 6, 2016 [–]

You might like to check out MenuetOS/KolibriOS and the old QNX demo disk.

Both provide GUIs and rudimentary Web browsers. QNX was full POSIX, too, although the demo disk didn't include a terminal.

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