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   Tom Lyon ✅ (aka_pugs@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 05:36:43 JST Tom Lyon ✅

   Question: What are the most important *operating system* improvements of today's Macintosh compared with the UNIX workstations of the '80s?

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     Adrian Cockcroft (adrianco@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 05:36:43 JST Adrian Cockcroft

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     @aka_pugs Reliable instant sleep/wake. Reliable secure over the air updates. No hassle disk encryption. Time Machine backups. Mostly a bunch of ease of use things so that most people aren’t aware of the underlying OS.

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     Rob Pike (robpike@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 05:36:43 JST Rob Pike

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     • Adrian Cockcroft

     @adrianco @aka_pugs But my Mac Studio won't go to sleep without panicking, from the first day I brought it home. Time Machine backups have a nutty UI and don't back up the OS, only user files I believe. (Plan 9 had a much more integrated and complete way of doing this.) Encryption is barely an OS feature - it should be just an abstraction in the disk driver.

     I don't think much has happened to the OS at all. I talked about that happening in 2000.

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