SCO v. IBM reopened

Posted Jun 18, 2013 15:16 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: SCO v. IBM reopened by nye
Parent article: SCO v. IBM reopened

and we all know that wikipedia is never wrong...

I never had access to any beta software from Microsoft, but I did buy and run DR-DOS and Windows 3.x

I ran into this bug personally and had to patch to work around it.

SCO v. IBM reopened

Posted Jun 18, 2013 15:21 UTC (Tue) by nye (subscriber, #51576) [Link] (1 responses)

I'm very sorry, but your memory of this must be imperfect. There are loads of citations, and they all seem to agree that it was not in any released version. See for example http://www.drdobbs.com/windows/examining-the-windows-aard... by Andrew Shulman who analysed the code in question at the time.

SCO v. IBM reopened

Posted Jun 18, 2013 19:24 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

I tried to run DR-Dos. Likewise, I couldn't successfully run Windows on it. But with me it was different - the hard disk kept getting corrupted.

And like the GP - I wasn't using beta software - I had no access to it. I fail to see how you can accuse him of mis-remembering something as big and unusual as manually patching a commercial binary.

Cheers,
Wol