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DOS, early Windows, and early MacOS worked more or less exactly that way. Somehow, we all survived.

• kalleboo 9mo ago
  Apple nearly didn't survive until they bought a company that made an OS that didn't work that way.
• baq 9mo ago
  MS Word had to be rewritten from ~scratch to get rid of a document losing crash. Yes, we survived, but at what cost?