If he's not being paid by MS, he should be...
But he's a well known troll around these parts, move along folks.
Unless there's useful info in the response, then it's worth spreading.
On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 21:02:55 +
P NIKOLIC wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 00:59:33 +0700
> "Urmas" wrote:
>
> >
On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 00:59:33 +0700
"Urmas" wrote:
> "James Knott":
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
>
> Quote:
> Microsoft disabled the AARD code for the final release of Windows 3.1
>
> It's a myth.
>
>
Do you actually work for mickeyshaft seems that way you are backing them to the
On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 00:59:33 +0700
"Urmas" wrote:
> "James Knott":
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
>
> Quote:
> Microsoft disabled the AARD code for the final release of Windows 3.1
>
> It's a myth.
What is a myth, that Microsoft disabled the AARD code? :P
The AARD code is indeed *no
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 07:44:11AM +0700, Urmas wrote:
> "Paul":
>
> >Microsoft, as the developers of the
> >OS, put code in their OS to capture the Ctrl+J key combination, and not
> >pass it on to the foreground application. However, they also put in
> >code to allow an application to request tha
On 11/6/2013 12:59 PM, Urmas wrote:
"James Knott":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
Quote:
Microsoft disabled the AARD code for the final release of Windows 3.1
It's a myth.
But they didn't remove it and it could always be reenabled by changing a
single byte of machine code.
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"James Knott":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
Quote:
Microsoft disabled the AARD code for the final release of Windows 3.1
It's a myth.
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Urmas wrote:
> "James Knott":
>
>> That AARD code was one. They also used hidden API as was revealed when
>> Borland sued them and more.
>
> 'AARD code' was not in any retail version of Windows. It is fake.
>
>
>
Well, you 'd better thel that to the guys at DR-DOS and also those in
the antitrust
"James Knott":
That AARD code was one. They also used hidden API as was revealed when
Borland sued them and more.
'AARD code' was not in any retail version of Windows. It is fake.
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Urmas wrote:
> So you've just made that malarkey up? Wow.
He is correct in saying MS did a lot of things to cripple competition.
That AARD code was one. They also used hidden API as was revealed when
Borland sued them and more. They have a very long history of playing
dirty, up to and including
"Don Myers":
Some of the things Microsoft has done are chronicled here in a report
to the European Commission a number of years ago:
One cannot hold in a smile while reading that whine. In particular, the
Wordstar case of 'shell namespace extensions', which a text processor (Even
MS Office on
On 11/05/2013 06:55 PM, Paul wrote:
On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 05:34:38 +0700
"Urmas" wrote:
Simple. The evil machinations of Microsoft.
I will repeat. If any and all Windows application could use Ctrl+J
for anything, why WordStad suddenly couldn't?
Ok, let me spell it out for you. Microsoft, as th
On 11/5/13 5:44 PM, Urmas wrote:
"Paul":
Microsoft, as the developers of the
OS, put code in their OS to capture the Ctrl+J key combination, and not
pass it on to the foreground application. However, they also put in
code to allow an application to request that the key combination be
passed on,
"Paul":
Microsoft, as the developers of the
OS, put code in their OS to capture the Ctrl+J key combination, and not
pass it on to the foreground application. However, they also put in
code to allow an application to request that the key combination be
passed on, code that most people, including
On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 05:34:38 +0700
"Urmas" wrote:
> > Simple. The evil machinations of Microsoft.
>
> I will repeat. If any and all Windows application could use Ctrl+J
> for anything, why WordStad suddenly couldn't?
Ok, let me spell it out for you. Microsoft, as the developers of the
OS, put c
Simple. The evil machinations of Microsoft.
I will repeat. If any and all Windows application could use Ctrl+J for
anything, why WordStad suddenly couldn't?
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On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 09:50:25 +0700
"Urmas" wrote:
> "Virgil Arrington":
>
> Actually, WordStar had different Ctrl+key functions than Word. Yes,
> today, Ctrl+J is a shortcut for Justify, but back in the WordStar
> days, Ctrl+J did something different...
>
> If it worked in Microsoft Word, how th
"Virgil Arrington":
Actually, WordStar had different Ctrl+key functions than Word. Yes, today,
Ctrl+J is a shortcut for Justify, but back in the WordStar days, Ctrl+J did
something different...
If it worked in Microsoft Word, how the hell it was 'captured' and
'unavailable' for Wordstar, wha
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