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Did the Windows 95 setup team forget that MS-DOS can do graphics?
Oh look what you just made there.
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The Magical Excel 97 Far East Language Build Screwdriver
For your magical build needs.
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The x86 architecture is the weirdo (2004)
So unlike all the others, yet people think it's the normal one.
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The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share memory
Reportedly Microsoft's first hardware product.
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The history of Alt+number sequences
Code pages and custom keyboard handling.
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How did MS-DOS decide on two seconds to keep the floppy disk cache valid?
A stopwatch and a race against time.
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A look back at memory models in 16-bit MS-DOS
Ways of dealing with the fractured address space.
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The sad history of Unicode printf-style format specifiers in Visual C++ (2019)
Getting ahead of the standard, which went a different way.
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The worst-selling Microsoft software product of all time: OS/2 for the Mach 20
Count 'em on one hand.
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The outside investigation of SoftRAM 95 (2021)
It had a plan, but didn't quite execute on it.