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GuestFAUniverse 16 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: What MS-DOS Can Do That Linux Can't

Real mode and a multi-user, multi-process OS wouldn't have been a good fit.

(Btw. it's utterly strange that the English Wikipedia doesn't seem to mention anything about "multi-user". One of Linux's /key functionalities/.)

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