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I remember the sad moments when something went wrong and the teacher went to the corner of the room to reset _all the machines_

Or walking in for computer class and they would all be hung on the boot screen

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I think they had some sort of GUI but we never got it at our school - they just dropped you into a command prompt on boot like God, Thompson and Ritchie intended.

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