>> All the now-nostalgicized-over '80s OSes were pretty horribly >> unstable: [...]
Personally - I went through my larval phase under it - I'd cite VMS as a counterexample. Even today I think a lot of OSes would do well to learn from it. (Not that I think it's perfect, of course. But I do think it did some things better than most of what I see today.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B