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Article #621359Re: Old word processors
From: Carlos E.R.
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 12:36
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 12:36
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On 2018-03-24 10:38, Charles Richmond wrote: > On 3/23/2018 7:24 PM, J. Clarke wrote: >> >> [snip...] [snip...] [snip...] >> >> Microsoft used DOS to load Windows. They also had a fallback mode in >> which DOS calls were used instead of native drivers. That doesn't >> mean that on compatible hardware DOS was playing _any_ role in the >> operation of Windows 9x. >> > > Somewhere I read that Microsoft put code in Windows so that it would not > boot up... if you were trying to run DR=DOS (from Digital Research or > Caldera) underneath. > > https://tinyurl.com/yabmhagy Interesting stuff, but why do they write without paragraph breaks? I had to stop reading after a while. -- Cheers, Carlos.
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