Ask HN: What are the “Great Wonders of Software”, the greatest software built?

Posted by andrewstuart on Monday September 11, 2023 @06:38AM
from the ask-hn dept.

For me:

The web browser - Chrome & Firefox

Linux

MacOS

What do you think?

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Re:Ask HN: What are the “Great Wonders of Software”, the gre... by jlpcsl on Monday September 11, 2023 @07:07AM (#37465487)

Linux, LibreOffice, Firefox, KDE Plasma desktop

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Re:Ask HN: What are the “Great Wonders of Software”, the gre... by matt3210 on Monday September 11, 2023 @07:10AM (#37465504)

The firmware my coffee maker runs is #1

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Re:Ask HN: What are the “Great Wonders of Software”, the gre... by Hermandw on Monday September 11, 2023 @10:37AM (#37467941)

Unisys MCP & MS-DOS. Two Operating systems.

MCP on Unisys mainframes was the most reliable Operating System I ever used.

MS-DOS started the world domination of Personal Computers, after a few false / failed starts by other desktop Operating Systems.

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