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0 pointsforgottenpaswrd13y ago0 comments

"Microsoft never waited until DOS or Windows were perfected, they just released them once they thought they were adequate"

NEVER WAITED??? I bet you were too young to remember those days because Micorsoft(Bill Gates) promised Windows(3.11) like 6 years before it was ready. Windows was coming "soon", and "soon" and "soon", for years.

And better we don't talk about DOS. DRDOS was much better than MSDOS, but MS made windows over DRDOS so they had not to compete on technical merits.

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RyanMcGreal13y ago

I think you miss the grandparent's point: when DOS first came out, it only supported 8 character file names and didn't support directories.

archangel_one13y ago

Exactly, thanks. I said they didn't wait for perfection, not that they never waited at all.

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