i wonder how much modern software ultimately relies on the fact that modern operating systems will reclaim all their resources?
because i read recently about a comparatively widely used system (was is Tripos?) where that wasn't true - programs were expected to return all their resources to the OS before quitting, because the OS wouldn't do it for them
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