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"The genius of Windows 95 was that it could sit on top of whatever strange legacy DOS drivers you were using and still provide some modicum of stability."

On the other hand, this helped Novell continue the DR-DOS lawsuit against MS. OS/2 1.x had little drivers initially, but it was beginning to improve by 1991, and OS/2 2.0 could use OS/2 1.x drivers.



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