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[mmcirvin]

From John Siracusa's review of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion:

The user does not have to manually manage multiple copies of document files in order to retrieve old versions.
If you still don't get it, check out the item in the File menu formerly known as "Save." It now reads "Save a Version" instead. Every time a Lion-savvy application autosaves a document, it stores a copy of the previous version before it overwrites the file with the new data. A pop-up menu in the title bar of each document window provides access to previous versions.

Oh wow, they've caught up with VMS!

Comments

[piehead.livejournal.com]

The more I learn about VMS (at a former job we were still running OpenVMS on Dec, er, HP Alphas), the more I'm surprised by how much catching up a lot of other systems have to do.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I still think VMS had the most elegantly-designed command-line interface I've ever encountered in an OS. I've gotten used to Unix and its extended family, of course, and the Unix CLI benefits from a gigantic accumulated software base. But compared to VMS, Unix command shells feel like a motley pile of odds and ends held together with spit and baling wire.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

And, of course, the less said about MS-DOS/Windows the better.