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The first version is for macOS, which has snapshots [1] and file versioning [2] built-in.

[1]: https://eclecticlight.co/2024/04/08/apfs-snapshots/

[2]: https://eclecticlight.co/2021/09/04/explainer-the-macos-vers...



Are average users likely to be using these features? Most devs at my company don’t even have Time Machine backups


snapshots are local Time Machine backups for a few hours which don't need external hard drives and are configured by default I think


RSX-11M for the PDP-11 had filesystem versioning back in the early 1980s, if not earlier.


And if they were releasing Cowork for RSX-11M, that might be relevant.




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