I didn't join the PC world until 1994 when Windows 3.x/DOS 6.x were new. Even from my corner of the computer universe I heard about how "bad" DOS 4.0 was initially. OS/2 Museum does a detailed history of it coinciding with its source release. #ComputerHistory#history#Retrocomputingos2museum.com/wp/dos/dos-4-0/
@hankg Love the shoutout for COMPAQ DOS 3.31. Still my go-to for sub-386 machines!
Also love the line "IBM made another mistake in assuming that it was free to change many undocumented aspects of DOS." One of the classic blunders developers still make today. 😌
@hankg Yeah, I recall sticking with DOS 3.2 and only upgrading when DOS 5.0 was released. I mean, there were multiple reasons for this, but one of them was 4.0's reputation. 😆
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