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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (20251)6/25/1998 3:24:00 PM
From: Andy Thomas   of 24154
 
Hi Dan,

DR/DOS Win3.1: Yes it was involving win3.1. I remember when one of my superiors told me to keep an eye out for a certain error message that people would get when running DR-DOS. The programmer who'd put the code in was grabbing some byte string out of the DR-DOS kernel, and posting it to the user as part of the error message. From what I gathered of the conversation, the particular programmer involved was simply trying to find out something about DR-DOS, not disable it (and I was asked to report back the contents of the error messages DR-DOS users received and passed to me).

I wish I'd paid closer attention to that little incident, considering that it seems to have led to the FTC investigation.

win95/osr2/osr2.5/win98:

My experience is that, with OSR2 and 2.5, and Win98, you can still put "pause" in the autoexec.bat and drop out into DOS, before ever reaching the GUI. I didn't know of any change between the various flavors of win95 in that regard.

What I do know is that, during the development of win95, they put in the single-app dos mode (SADM) which I eschewed because of poor performance - the games ran better in straight dos than SADM. The reason the marketeers at MSFT never elucidated this was - in my opinion - because they're in the process of "dumbing down" the users.

Heck, if the users are computer illiterate they won't even consider whether the software is bogus.... sucks less.

FWIW
Andy

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