Reply to post: Re: Scanner

Microsoft has Windows 1.0 retrogasm: Remember when Windows ran in kilobytes, not gigabytes?

Robert Carnegie Silver badge

Re: Scanner

I think that was the idea: a cheap copy of Windows that only ran for the software or hardware that it was accompanying. If you wanted to use Windows properly then you'd buy your own full copy and use the third-party item with that instead of with the runtime.

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