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How to get free software from yesteryear's IT crowd – trick code into thinking it's running on a rival PC

Saturday June 28, 2025. 10:30 AM , from TheRegister
'This is not a copyright message'
Before plug and play was blowing up Windows 98 on a Comdex stage, Windows 95 engineers were grappling with the technology – and on one fateful day they found some unusual text in the BIOS of several PCs that they had to work around.…
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