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What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?

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276 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 13 May 25 11:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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chuckadams ◴[16 May 25 15:40 UTC] No.44006767[source]▶
I just can't get me enough of Raymond Chen and his wonderful walks down the dustier paths of memory lane. Feels like a more innocent time where I didn't feel like I was imminently going to be turned into paperclips.
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avidiax ◴[16 May 25 16:26 UTC] No.44007294[source]▶
Yeah, the sense at that time was that you master the machine. Now, increasingly, the machines will master you if you aren't careful. Of course, the machines haven't really done anything to us. They've just been locked down and remotely controlled to deliver ads and misinformation.
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1. yongjik ◴[16 May 25 20:54 UTC] No.44009748[source]▶
That's just past with its rose-tinted glasses. It was easy for someone to master the machine when that someone was a university researcher or a lone gamer, the most precious resource stored in the machine was saved term projects, and either it was not connected to anything else, or connected to fellow university researchers.

The stake was low, because nobody could use your computer to drain your bank account. And someone who would "prank" your computer beyond the social norm would get a stern talking to.

Computers these days have to support your grandma making hotel reservations online without her entire financial information being sent to hackers in Eastern Europe. They're doing jobs that 70s OS designers never thought about. It's a different world.