Writing a Dos Clone in 2019
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The author writes about their experience creating a DOS clone in 2019, sparking discussion about the project and the author's unconventional sabbatical.
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>Recently I was lucky enough to take a one-month sabbatical away from work. While I spent much of that (sabbatical period) time traveling and staying away from a computer,
I had no idea it was now en vogue to take a nice one month sabbatical from your big tech FAANG job to go time traveling. It raises so many questions. First of all, why the one month period. If he has a time machine couldn't the sabbatical be forever? Second, which tech company has, it seems, secretly developed time travel and time displacement science, produced a time machine, and offered it only to employees going on sabbatical? It seems like a google kind of thing but maybe it's a move from amazon's business, long shot netflix or valve out of left field with a new entertainment tech.
In any case I for one welcome our new time traveling tech overlords and look forward to the time wars as the natural evolution to the space rocket wars
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