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If I remember correctly, it was cooperative, not preemptive, multitasking. When things were going well you wouldn't notice the difference. Much less effective when dealing with a non-cooperating task.
Earlier versions of Windows may have been similar.
The monument itself is based on a famous photo. The postal service should have bypassed the monument new artwork for the stamp based on the photo.
Did the sculpter pay royalties to Joe Rosenthal the photographer? Or to the AP, which employed him? If not, this is the height of hypocracy.
Come to think of it, it would probably be harder to produce an Apollo-quality fake moon landing than do it for real given 1960 era technology.
There are two senses of the word "legal means" in English. One is "means that are in conformance with or allowed by law". The other is "by means of judicial process".
My observation is that the FSF is in it both ways.
It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.