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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by rahoulb on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @05:00PM (#16328410)
I also used to love the fact that the equivalent of kernel extensions (totally forgotten the name) could be disabled by moving them to a different folder. The file system IS the computer.
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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by smashingfiasco on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @05:19PM (#16328522)
Agreed! I think that this behavior may have been one of the truly novel principles of classic Mac OS.

IIRC, you even used to be able to just swap the System folder around and have like a completely new/different install of Mac OS.

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