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Subject: Re: EGA and Codeview
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Date: Fri, 13-Mar-87 02:22:53 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 13 02:22:53 1987
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The story as I understand it is that MicroSoft tries to code around
some "interesting features" (read bugs) in IBM's EGA BIOS.  As a
consequence, they get bizarre behavior on those cards which don't
have the same bugs.  MicroSoft in general has a very weird view of
the PC world: they sell MS-DOS to OEMs of all sorts of machines,
but their applications programs expect True Blue hardware.  (Example:
MicroSoft Word looks for "IBM" in the right location in the EGA BIOS
to determine if you're using an EGA card.)
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