Subj : Re: Ms-Dos And Win 3.11 A
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Feb 06 2024 06:20:00

-=> Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

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


 No, he worked for Addstor. They had a program called SuperStor.

 Stac sued Microsoft because they were in talks with Microsoft and
 Microsoft used technical information gleaned from the discussions to
 make DoubleSpace. They re-engineered it to become DriveSpace after the
 ruling, but by that time the damage was done.

 Addstor claimed that DOS was made to throw up error messages on
 non-Microsoft DOSes.



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