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Or Win 3.1 looking for whatever shibboleth was in MS-DOS and popping up a scary-looking message if it found another DOS? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
by cratermoon 1y ago
Or Win 3.1 looking for whatever shibboleth was in MS-DOS and popping up a scary-looking message if it found another DOS? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
- keanb 1y agoI don’t think anybody remembers this since that code never shipped in retail.
- GeekyBear 1y agoIt didn't ship (in the final retail version) only after the tech press of the day exposed what Microsoft had done.
- cratermoon 1y agoIt did ship in the final retail version, in way. It was disabled, but the code was still there, and a flag was all that was needed to enable it.