Subj : Re: Old computer
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : acn
Date : Mon Jul 04 2022 14:17:00

Am 01.07.22 schrieb poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 in FSX_GEN:

Hallo poindexter,

pF> Yep, that was Peak Microsoft - right after they made Windows 3.1 break
pF> with DR-DOS.

Well, in fact Windows 3.1 really worked fine on DR-DOS, only M$ had  
discovered how they can detect if MS-DOS or PC-DOS (and not something  
else) is running. If one is running something else, a warning message  
was displayed.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code

Digital Research offered a patch ("Business update") for DR-DOS, so  
that this detection did not work any longer.

pF> My co-sysop at the time worked for Addstor, the company that
pF> made a disk compression program similar to Stacker. They had a bear of a
pF> time getting Windows to run on it, but Microsoft's compression tool ran
pF> just fine. He could discuss at great length about the suspicions they had.

Oh, I remember SuperStor, which was bundled with DR-DOS 6, but I had  
not used it.

pF> I used it to get the last bit of life out of a 70mb drive the BBS was
pF> running on... How far we've come.

Yep :) My first PC (a 386sx with 25MHz) had a 52 MB hard disk :)

Regards,
Anna

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