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Right on! The groovy cat robin jived:

> Victor Bien <nospam.vbien@attglobal.net> writes: > G. Wayne Hines wrote:
> 
>> > Microsoft seemed to have a distinct edge in the marketplace,
>> > thanks partly to FUD and promotion of what almost amounted to
>> > vapourware. Just how late was Windows 95?
>> > 
>> > In the early 90's, computer dealers in this area were pushing MS
>> > products over other brands. The issue was "compatibility". "That
>> > program may not run on DR-DOS".
> 
> DR DOS had the edge over MS DOS.
> I never found a program that would not run under DR-DOS.

Well, Windows 3.1 wouldn't run until I got the patch for DR-DOS.

It's not an entirely fair example, as everyone knows Microsoft purposefully
inserted bogus code into Windows 3.1 to block DR-DOS, but still...

Some notorious wintrolls will until this day claim that Microsoft only put
the code in a beta version of Windows 3.1, and that it was all supposed to
be a joke anyway (har-di-fucking-har-har), but I still have both the
original retail version of the Windows 3.1 disks and the DR-DOS patch disk
lying on the shelf at home, waiting for Erik Funkenbusch to send me the
money(*) so I can FedEx them to him.


(*) Yeah, like I'm going to put money up front with a weasel like Wintroll
Ewik.

-- 
Jazz.

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