>> All the now-nostalgicized-over '80s OSes were pretty horribly
>> unstable: [...]

Personally - I went through my larval phase under it - I'd cite VMS as
a counterexample.  Even today I think a lot of OSes would do well to
learn from it.  (Not that I think it's perfect, of course.  But I do
think it did some things better than most of what I see today.)

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