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Re:What Is DOS/4GW? by dale_glass on Monday November 21, 2022 @05:24AM (#33690960)
TSRs were unreliable when they interacted with games and other graphical applications.

Eg, things like a calendar tool trying to pop up a reminder mid-game would often not end well.

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Re:What Is DOS/4GW? by lathiat on Monday November 21, 2022 @10:15AM (#33693449)
My 486 had boot sector protection in the BIOS. It would pop up a Y/N confirmation in text mode during boot sector overwrite.

This froze the windows 95 setup in graphical mode. Although the text prompt appeared for whatever reason the Y/N didn’t work and we could never continue.

So was never able to upgrade that machine.

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Re:What Is DOS/4GW? by dale_glass on Monday November 21, 2022 @10:44AM (#33693815)
Yes, I remember that! But at least on my board it could be disabled.
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