CompuServe Messages

The issue that burned Stac was the fact that their reverse-engineering activities were against Beta copies of MS-DOS, supplied to Stac by Microsoft under specific non-disclosure agreements. The "feature" that they were implementing was the "early load" of the disk compression drivers, implemented in MS-DOS 6.0, that allowed the compression to be hooked into the system prior to the loading/interpreting of the CONFIG.SYS. It had nothing to do with either Windows, nor with "shipping" software. – BobR