FW: Dos v2.11

From: Captain Napalm <spc_at_armigeron.com>
Date: Tue Aug 11 08:17:29 1998

It was thus said that the Great Russ Blakeman once stated:
>
> Allison J Parent wrote:
>
> > < I have a copy of version 2.10 which I suspect will do the trick ( can'
> > < find any reference to a version 2.11). I collect DOSae and would be
> >
> > there was a 2.11 and it was common as it was the bugfix for 2.10 and
> > before. if it runs under 2.11 there is no reson it can't run under 3.3.
> > I can't imagine what an app might use that wasn't in 3.3!
>
> I do remember one, and only one, program that came outunder ms-dos 2.1x and
> would not run under 3.x....Battlezone. I have no idea why it wouldn't run
> under anything other than 2.1x other than maybe the compiler used routines
> and addresses from that dos. Other than that, you are absolutley right as I
> still run a few games and such from back in the 2.11 days, even in MSDOS mode
> on a Win95 machine.

  Some programs (and Microsoft programs were notorious for this) would check
the version and refuse to run unless it was *equal* to the version it was
expecting. The correct way would have been equal or greater than.

  -spc (Bloody programmers)
Received on Tue Aug 11 1998 - 08:17:29 BST

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