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Re:Files Are Fraught with Peril by noir_lord on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @11:18AM (#20507388)
I'm amazed every time a machine boots.

Given the thousands of things that could cause it not to it's incredible it makes it down the happy path each time.

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Re:Files Are Fraught with Peril by jacobush on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @01:00PM (#20508231)
Yep - as soon as they moved away from ROMs I am too.

Amiga, Atari ST and early Macs were sort of in a twilight - they ran the core OS from ROM but loaded utilities and sometimes patches from disk (-ette).

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