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After 32 years, one of the ’Net’s oldest software archives is shutting down | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If you interacted with an ATM in the 90's - 2000's it was likely running OS/2. It was superior to windows, but lost in the end. Many of the concepts of the workplace shell were ahead of other DEs even today. KDE initiallly borrowed a lot from the wps.