History lessons

At Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters, Adam has a fascinating deconstruction of the widely reported canard, ”DOS ain’t done till Lotus won’t run,” which I mentioned the other day in another context.

If you’re old enough to remember MS-DOS, it’s worth reading.

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