Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers (2002)

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"Some of the most interesting and deadly aspects of the enemies were bugs caused by improperly terminated boundary conditions in the algorithms. Often these bugs produced behavior far more interesting and psychotic then anything I conceived of." -Eugene Jarvis on Robotron 2084

There are times i wonder if we crapified home computing by replacing pr program removable storage with a shared HDD.

but then we could not really have multi tasking.

Thing is, i feel multitasking is what allows so much crap (botnets, ransomware, etc) to flourish.

There were systems that embraced both models. Remember the Amiga? When using it for work it'd run off of hard drive and would multitask between productivity apps. Some games though required the isolated boot model.

Personally I always found the isolated boot model to be kind of a pain (and even now I prefer VMs over native boots for running non-native software), but I can see why some like it.

I remember those days and I don't miss them in the slightest.

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