Hello Alain,
>>>let me explain why: Windows at some point included some very complicated
>>>locking mechanism to *avoid* windows running other DOSes.
>> plain wrong.
> ?? what I meant to say is that Windows 3.x (some version) had some code
> to detect if the dos was really from Microsoft. This was suposed to be
> against DR-DOS
> If I am plain wrong, *and* if you have some spear time, please tell me
> why ;-)
a) it was NEVER a lock code. it just detected other DOS (DRDOS in
particular), and displayed a warning/messagebox like
You are running an unsupported version of DOS
do you want to run anayway
[yes] [no]
that's not exactly locking.
b) they did that indeed in a very complicated way
c) this was NEVER sold and NEVER went into production. it was only in
a Beta of some Windows 3.x
d) this has been told here a few thousand times
tom
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