From: "Geo." 

"Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
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> Back when I was writing DOS programs I was more in control of the
> machine.  DOS machines were also less likely to be doing things behind
> the user's back.

You had more access to the hardware as a programmer, as a user I don't
believe you had more control because an application doing something funky
could screw with all your other applications, the programmers may have had
more control, the users didn't.

Geo.

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