[Tfug] Shameless Software Trafficking (Wildly OT)

[John Karns]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:43 PM, keith smith<klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I followed the dr-dos suit.  It was a vapor ware suit.  I don't think it was as you say it was.
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> MS kept saying they were going to release a more feature rich version to keep Dr-Dos from being purchased.
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> The other issue was MS said that DOS was incorporated inside win-95.  Dr-Dos was able to show that MS made it look this way. So they would not have the same setup as win 3.1 running ontop of DOS.
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> Dr-Dos showed that win-95 was two products shipped together and made to look like one product - effectively killing Dr-Dos.

I remember installing W3.1 over DR-Dos and seeing the warning about it
detecting an unsupported OS.  I ignored it, figuring it was about
killing the competition.  And the system ran every bit as well as ..
well, a crippled, brain-dead, piece of software like W3.1 could run on
MS-Dos.

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John