can anyone remember...?
Nov. 21st, 2006 07:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eYears back Microsoft destroyed a company that produced a much improved command line for MSWindows. It was a drop-in replacement for DOS, and gave users much greater functionality. Microsoft saw it as a competitor and deliberately destroyed it by adding fake error messages into Windows. Running processes were checked to see if they used the "competitor" DOS, in which case Windows would put up a fake error message. Some years ago a computer magazine actually published the code in MSWindows which did this bit of nastiness. (I still have it somewhere.)
Can anybody remember what the name of that DOS was?
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Found it: DR-DOS, by Digital Research.
Read this:
http://www.kickassgear.com/Articles/Microsoft.htm
to get an idea of the depths of deception they indulged in. It features internal emails from Microsoft on how they lied to their customers and set about destroying the superior DR-DOS.
This one shows how Microsoft views their customers with disgust, considering crashing people's computers if they tried to install DR-DOS and to confuse people with legalistic FUD.
http://listserv.boisestate.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9808&L=list310&P=2052
Can anybody remember what the name of that DOS was?
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Found it: DR-DOS, by Digital Research.
Read this:
http://www.kickassgear.com/Articles/Microsoft.htm
to get an idea of the depths of deception they indulged in. It features internal emails from Microsoft on how they lied to their customers and set about destroying the superior DR-DOS.
This one shows how Microsoft views their customers with disgust, considering crashing people's computers if they tried to install DR-DOS and to confuse people with legalistic FUD.
http://listserv.boisestate.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9808&L=list310&P=2052