Not that long ago, 6 or 7 years, my school computer lab was using AppleII's and at home I had an old IBM which was running MS-DOS (Both a little out of date). Anyway, I always preferred IBM's over AppleII's for the reason you mentioned above, that you had to reboot AppleII's.

Later, with MacOS and Windows, I preferred Windows since you always had the option of using the DOS prompt (command line) instead of Windows itself, unlike with MacOS.

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