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Re:Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotif... by SSLy on Monday March 04, 2024 @09:35AM (#39590997)
> Be

example https://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/

msft forced PC makers to ship bootloaders that would lockup on sight of Be's boot chain

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Re:Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotif... by nobleach on Monday March 04, 2024 @01:21PM (#39593927)
They literally left comments in their code saying, "we should crash here if using DR-DOS". Digital Research had a compatible but different DOS implementation at the time.
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