Re: Old word processors

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From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 21:39

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On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:48:53 -0000 (UTC), Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 17:23:55 GMT, Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>
>> Actually, they were graphical shells running on a modified version of 
> MS-
>> DOS, but this was disguised by not being able to turn off starting the 
>> graphical environment on boot.
>> 
>
> Did you never press F5 or F8?

I seem to recall that the win.ini had an option like "gui=0" and it would
boot you into MS-DOS with no graphical environment. Cannot verify that right
now...
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Andreas

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