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Re:Windows 2: The Final Fantasy of Operating Systems by orra on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @06:46AM (#42565472)
A surprisingly detailed writeup, nice.

But what's the misleading anecdote from Raymond Chen? The claim piqued my interest but I didn't catch that part.

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Re:Windows 2: The Final Fantasy of Operating Systems by nkali on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @07:11AM (#42565566)
The answer to that is in the "sources" section. Raymond Chen first claims that Windows 2.x supported protected mode (which is half-true; it could run DOS applications in protected mode, but neither kernel nor applications supported it), and then finishes with saying "standard mode (Windows/286 style)" which is just wrong, as explained in the section about protected mode Windows kernel.
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