Re:Ex-Caldera dev describes lost “WinBolt” Win9x-capable ver...
by fredoralive on Monday August 30, 2021 @04:05PM
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There is also an elephant in the room with all these questions about the messy interactions between Windows 9x and DOS - Windows NT. By 1995 Microsoft’s long view of the future of the PC OS did not involve DOS. Even before NT we had OS/2 as well.
If Microsoft had been “nicer” they could have made it easier for DR to use their DOS to load a GUI that mostly acted as its own OS and bypassed DOS once loaded, but what happens once they get to XP?
(Of course DR / Novell kinda knew this hence stuff like Star Trek, but whatever DR’s vision of the future was never came).
If Microsoft had been “nicer” they could have made it easier for DR to use their DOS to load a GUI that mostly acted as its own OS and bypassed DOS once loaded, but what happens once they get to XP?
(Of course DR / Novell kinda knew this hence stuff like Star Trek, but whatever DR’s vision of the future was never came).