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Re:Windows 3.x looks for 3 occurrences of “CON” 59 bytes apart by thought_alarm on Saturday June 29, 2019 @10:58PM (#20316070)
It seems doubtful that Microsoft would jump through such ridiculous hoops to ensure Windows ran on DR-DOS. They did the exact opposite, and added code to detect DR-DOS and disable Windows.

And in any case, it would be up to DR-DOS to emulate whatever MS-DOS was doing.

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Re:Windows 3.x looks for 3 occurrences of “CON” 59 bytes apart by Someone1234 on Saturday June 29, 2019 @11:23PM (#20316148)
> They did the exact opposite, and added code to detect DR-DOS and disable Windows.

In 3.1. Before that Windows ran fine on other vendor's versions of DOS.

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