What have we lost from computers 20 years ago

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Published on 2011-03-15T21:04:11Z Indexed on 2011/03/16 0:17 UTC
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Following the theme of - I can't believe computers used floppy disks and did you have debuggers 20 years ago - questions (and because even putting my age in hex I don't look young anymore).

What have we lost from computers 20years ago?

VMS versioning file system. Make a mistake, no problem myprog.cpp;5 is still there.
Home computers that powered up to give you a wordprocessor or a basic prompt in <0.5sec
User ports, serial ports and ADCs that you could control things with - without an arduino
APIs that actually did what they said (even DOS interrupts), without having to guess and experiment your way through layers of frameworks.

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