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		ChuckNorris89 on July 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (1987) Cheap IBM PC clones running pirated videogames on Windows sparked the "real" boom of PCs in homes. Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake etc.

IncRnd on July 5, 2021 [–]

Some of that code is till being parroted by Copilot!

https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309

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