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Discussion on: 4 Things Developers Take for Granted That Used to Be Really Hard

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Michiel Hendriks

Another thing: system crashes due to bad code. These days your application just crashes, or you kill it. You fix the code and try again. In DOS, and also the earlier MS Windows versions there was a fair chance you might need to reboot your whole system because you managed to lock it up.