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Screenshot needed

There's got to be one available somewhere. Thalter (talk) 16:56, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Here's one at one of the ELs; I doubt it would fall under fair use. [1] JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs) 03:20, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Origin of Name

This article is extremely weak. But one of the inexcusable errors was attempting to attribute 'AARD' to Aaron Reynolds. This was a flagrant trick: the two articles referenced did not say anything about the origin. What is known is that Andrew Schulman found the string 'AARD' in the code and began referring to it as such.

Aaron Reynolds

The source for this is some random web site called "Why Microsoft is an evil company" and we're just supposed to take its word? WillOakland (talk) 02:09, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There are numerous other sources as well, like this one: [2], and this one [3] Mahjongg (talk) 02:47, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As you weren't there and didn't follow the story as presented by Andrew Schulman and Mark Russinovich you obviously don't know. But you don't have to get uppity about it. You don't seem particularly technically adept either.

There could be perfectly legitimate reasons for not wanting to run a Beta on another version of DOS: it would complicate the Beta test results enormously. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.168.211.6 (talk) 23:41, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Utter rubbish. The project was based on a typical memo from Bill Gates: 'isn't there something we can do about this?' The code was deliberately obfuscated so Andrew and Mark had to inspect it in memory at runtime to see what was going on. If you're an engineer you know this can be done: the first version, after getting control, rewrites itself according to the algorithms built in and then again transfers control to its own address. This was possible on early PCs because they did not use protected memory or anything like that. And this code ran whilst Windows 3.1 was booting - meaning it hadn't yet coupled in other things such as extended or expanded memory. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.201.25.174 (talk) 20:54, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Major copyedit

I've made some fairly substantial copy edits to this article since it appeared to be a jumbled up mess. Events were out of chronological order, and several points were only covered as part of the Caldera/Microsoft lawsuit when they actually happened much earlier. Hopefully things are a little clearer now. CrispMuncher (talk) 15:05, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]