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by acdha 2425 days ago
I believe that’s a reference to this code and the resulting court case:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code

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Huh. I was thinking it was something to do with MS Word or other MS apps (which I know often had cross-OS or alternate OS versions, like Mac support). But no, that is indeed about... running Windows on a non-MS OS (non-MS DOS). Back when Windows was a GUI shell around DOS. Now that is history.