Re: OT: Desktop icons vanishing. How to get rid of them?





Rich Grise wrote:

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:44:39 -0700, Joerg wrote:

... IMHO the last good OS from up there in Redmond was DOS.

And they didn't even write that! They stole it from Digital
Research. =:-O

No. They bought it in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS

DR DOS was something else entirely.

Graham

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