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Re: Old word processors

#621370
From: Questor
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:15
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:23:55 -0700 (PDT), 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.

Incorrect.

In MSDOS.SYS:

BootGUI=0

Will supress booting Win9X and just loads COMMAND.COM instead.
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