Re: Found something interesting re MS-DOS

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 18:55:39 +0100 Message-Id: <60A2AFAE-8603-466A-9135-36676AE3F46E@wfmh.org.pl>

> On 2018-01-04, at 18:40, smf <smf@null.net> wrote:
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> On 04/01/2018 17:37, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote:
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>> AFAIR except those from Microsoft, which detect the "incompatible" environment and show its middle finger to the user ;-) Or something like that...
> 
> I'm trying to track an amstrad 1512 copy of dos plus, it was generally a very PC compatible for it's time. So it shouldn't be doing anything too crazy.

It wasn't DOS, those were Microsoft DOS programs that had something like the following pseudocode.

    if (dos_vendor != 'Microsoft') then show(finger[2])

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