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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:28:23 +0100
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On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 9:20 PM, harrismh777 <harmar@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> ... yup, ... was helping my little sis with her iMac over the phone from
> four states away and had her open a terminal for some =A0magic... and it =
took
> her exactly 1.03 seconds to say, "Oh, the iMac has DOS installed in the
> utilities folder!" =A0 :-O
>
> ... blondes... =A0 :-}

Just to confuse things even further, it's not unlikely that a Mac or
Linux or Windows computer will have DOSBox installed. Is *that* DOS?
Technically no, but practically yes.

ChrisA