[Gllug] MS grumbles (was: take a lookat my photos on Facebook)

[John G Walker]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:33:54 +0000 Martyn Drake <martyn at drake.org.uk>
wrote:

> Back then, for PCs, security was the responsibility of the
> application itself and not the operating system.  If you had to
> protect any data, the vendor responsible for the software had to DIY


This, of course, was also the case for drivers, which was a pain. You
had to match your hardware to your application.

DOS was seriously minimal,

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 All the best,
 John
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