The one depicted in the movie was the 6th iteration of the Matrix and was considered to be the optimum iteration. As we know from the movie, every story about a warewolf or vampire from long ago was a program from a previous more primitive variation and those presumably didn't work out well. It is also stated in the movie that the Oracle was the program who came up with the piece of the puzzle that saved entire crops of humans from being lost because they rejected what they were seeing - the illusion of choice and presumably normalcy. The war between the humans and machines happened in modern times - after the advent of computers. If you put the humans into a scenario that is alien to them they would reject the program and the crop would be lost.
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