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[–] qfe0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

It wasn't collectively known that software was hard to do right at that time. If it always performed as intended it would have made for a less expensive and perfectly safe machine. It's the textbook case in doing software wrong because there wasn't one that happened before it.