![]() I forgot that knowledge and took a "free upgrade" to Win10 for a Parallels virtual machine and it had so many problems that I had to abandon it and buy $200 replacement. It took until Window 3.1 before things got stable enough to use. No DOS version 2.* was sold to anybody who knew better just the same as any 4.* DOS. To top it all off, it was a standard joke among us geeks that Microsoft sold us betaware and then sold us the next version to fix the bugs we bought in the last iteration. Backward compatibility is one of the reasons that the PC remains dangerous to this day. ![]() It did make it possible for MSFT to rule the world as Steve Jobs took the opposite road. It left 5 designed holes in the OS that still are the main avenue for the hacker, malware and viruses. The Config.sys allowed anybody to make hardware for the PC and its clones. ![]() Converted to the PC in 1981 when my company declned to support Apple II or TRS-80. I've very long history with MSFT, having "coded" in Microsoft Basic on my TRS-80 model 1. I'm a faithful follower and purchaser (donator?) to Etrecheck.
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