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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by alwillis on Monday January 12, 2026 @03:46PM (#46594082)
The first version is for macOS, which has snapshots [1] and file versioning [2] built-in.

[1]: https://eclecticlight.co/2024/04/08/apfs-snapshots/

[2]: https://eclecticlight.co/2021/09/04/explainer-the-macos-vers...

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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by cbm-vic-20 on Monday January 12, 2026 @03:56PM (#46594196)
RSX-11M for the PDP-11 had filesystem versioning back in the early 1980s, if not earlier.
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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by TurkTurkleton on Monday January 12, 2026 @04:36PM (#46594631)
And if they were releasing Cowork for RSX-11M, that might be relevant.
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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by shepherdjerred on Monday January 12, 2026 @05:38PM (#46595194)
Are average users likely to be using these features? Most devs at my company don’t even have Time Machine backups
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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by aixpert on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @01:25AM (#46597845)
snapshots are local Time Machine backups for a few hours which don't need external hard drives and are configured by default I think
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