From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 7 14:11:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8A0137B68A for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 14:09:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA03170; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 15:08:10 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010807135454.048feca0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 13:58:07 -0600 To: tlambert2@mindspring.com, j mckitrick From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start? Cc: Brad Knowles , Paul Robinson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3B6F94BD.AC1B2672@mindspring.com> References: <20010806142544.A64348@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010806150653.C96762@jake.akitanet.co.uk> <20010806155550.C64348@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 01:11 AM 8/7/2001, Terry Lambert wrote: >(Digital Research's DR-DOS fell from grace when >Windows 95 went to beta, and refused to run on DR-DOS; this >code was later removed, but the damage was done; Actually, it was Windows 3.1. I told the story in a Sm@rt Reseller article. That article provided a BSD-licensed assembly language program that resurrected the message for all to see. (You had to run it on a Windows 3.1 system, of course.) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message