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Re:Mac System 1.0 (1998) by xenadu02 on Sunday February 14, 2016 @01:52PM (#11099428)
Yeah... And I can edit 4K video, encode/decode dozens of video/image formats, render a web page, etc. I get a JavaScript JIT, Perl, Ruby, and Python. I also get frameworks for mapping, photo editing, asynchronous execution, and many others.

The OS is bigger but it sure is more capable.

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Re:Mac System 1.0 (1998) by JonathonW on Sunday February 14, 2016 @02:41PM (#11099642)
I'm not complaining... just observing. I'm not one of those who pines for the "good old days" of cooperative multitasking, unprotected memory, and application errors taking down the whole system.

Although I do find it remarkable that they were able to stuff so much into such a tiny amount of space (everything had to fit on a 400KB disk plus the 64KB Toolbox ROM, and the OS plus applications only had 128KB of RAM to run in).

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