Subj : Re: Ms-Dos And Win 3.11 A
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Feb 05 2024 18:38:13

  Re: Re: Ms-Dos And Win 3.11 A
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to MIKE POWELL on Fri Feb 02 2024 06:59 am

 PF> My co-sysop in the '90s worked for a company that sold third-party disk compression software - he saw Microsoft in
 PF> action playing foul - stalling until they'd released DoubleSpace.

 PF> His company partnered with Digital Research, and they saw the issues DR-DOS had with Windows first-hand.

I remember that.  Was it Stacker?  I remember hearing about the legal action against Microsoft for that..  MS-DOS 6.00 and 6.20 had DoubleSpace, then they removed it in 6.21, and 6.22 had DriveSpace.  It wasn't very long before 6.22 came out, and I wondered how Microsoft was able to make their own non-infringing version so fast..

Nightfox
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