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Comment by post-it

7 days ago

Saving also often took a long time, so people didn't do it very often.

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wongarsu  7 days ago

Certainly depended on the software. But disks were slow back then, and a save would commonly block the entire UI. If your software produced big files you could wait for an inconvenient amount of time

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