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bandramitoday at 7:25 AM1 replyview on HN

It made more sense when running editors over tenuous telnet connections was more common


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dhosektoday at 8:16 AM

The kids really have no idea how tenuous computing in general was back in the olden days. Some of the stability issues in the 20th century translated to modern systems would be akin to black smoke coming out of your computer if you happened to have the wrong two programs running at the same time.