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- Thank you very much for this very interesting insight. I grew up with Windows 3.1 so am not so familiar with the systems and methods used back in the early-80s, and some of the points you listed would be unthinkable today. It's difficult to imagine "Joe User" in 2020 running a dissassembler on e.g. OpenOffice Writer to "customize" the application to his needs. How times have changed!Armes Pueppilein– Armes Pueppilein2020-03-10 10:04:55 +00:00Commented Mar 10, 2020 at 10:04
- @ArmesPueppilein: "Joe User" probably didn't disassemble anything in the early 1980s either, but many companies had some people who were not "Joes". Or you'd know somebody in a user group / computer club / whatever who wasn't. Or a magazine would tell you how to patch specific common pieces software.TeaRex– TeaRex2020-03-11 09:30:27 +00:00Commented Mar 11, 2020 at 9:30
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