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tanelpoder ◴[] No.41406758[source]
Haha, off-by-one pixel error!

I still see MacOS as the best choice for my desktop/laptop uses (browser and SSH), but I also have a documents folder that I’ve accumulated over decades. I still use various .txt files in the docs folder as my low tech note taking apps.

I use the Spotlight or Alfred keyboard shortcuts (that also use spotlight index?) for quickly opening the files when needed - and annoyingly my most important file - notes.txt - regularly disappears from the Spotlight index and suggestions. It’s been like that for at least 5 years, probably closer to 10. I’m not even trying anymore, will just open the file from command line with vi as the fallback step.

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stonethrowaway ◴[] No.41406778[source]
Speaking of bad vision for a moment I thought I read “I still see MsDOS as the best choice” and almost yelled out what patrician taste!
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tanelpoder ◴[] No.41406793[source]
Well, you can run multitasking in TSRs & keyboard interrupt handlers (the original event loop)… implementing a window manager and TCP stack is left as an exercise to the reader…
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yjftsjthsd-h ◴[] No.41406841[source]
> implementing a window manager and TCP stack is left as an exercise to the reader…

I'm pretty sure both of those have implementations available for DOS already.

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1. tanelpoder ◴[] No.41407465[source]
I recalled something from distant past - MSDOS multitasking with DESQView (apparently the same vendor who built QEMM):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview