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DR-DOS was great but it could not run Windows.
by 29athrowaway 2y ago
DR-DOS was great but it could not run Windows.
- pjmlp 2y agoAs DR-DOS 5.0 owner, it run Windows 3.1 just fine. You are referring to Windows 95 trick from Microsoft, regarding DR-DOS 6.
- rnd0 2y agoI don't think Windows 95 could run on any other dos without a lot of hacking and highly specific expertise?
- pjmlp 2y agoSecond part of my comment. This book has the background history about it, if I remember correctly. https://archive.org/details/unauthorizedwind00schu_1 https://archive.org/details/unauthorizedwind00schu_1 And there was the whole court case. https://www.wired.com/1999/06/more-legal-trouble-for-microsoft/ https://www.wired.com/1999/06/more-legal-trouble-for-microso...
- 29athrowaway 2y agoI see. I ran a version of DR-DOS that wasn't compatible then.
- LeoPanthera 2y agoI think you are probably referring to a beta of Windows 3.1 which deliberately barfed if run on any version of DOS that wasn't MS-DOS. That code was never included in any final non-beta product. Windows 95 doesn't care what version of DOS you have because it replaces it with its own - MS-DOS "7.0".