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  1.  @Sabersquirl  No, FOX didn't knew that Film merchanidising was a big thing. Because they only bought the movie rights from George Lucas. George Lucas wanted and kept the merchandising rights.
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  2.  @wolfgangdevries127  George Lucas managed to secure the merchandising part for himself. No film studio would do that today.
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  3. DOS never had an /s parameter for rd. That was Windows NT. DR-DOS had XDEL, long before MS-DOS.
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  4. GEM was Real Mode only. It was limited to 640 KiB of RAM. Windows 3.0 run in Protected Mode on a 286 and later and thus could use all RAM above 1 MiB. It was also capable to switch back to Real Mode to exit to DOS on a 286. THIS was the big difference, that changed everything and made Windows 3.0 a huge success. In Windows 3.1 real mode support was removed completely. The Windows versions before couldn't do that, that's why no one used them.
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  5. Today you better enter the keys ALT + F4.
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  6.  @madigorfkgoogle9349  There were also screens that could only do 60 Hz in the higher resolutions. The image flickered and that led to headaches.
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  7. Yes, you could use wildcards since MS-DOS 1.0. But for directory support you needed at least MS-DOS 2.0. In that sense, yes, these file operations could have been carried out with fewer commands. Deleting the directory would have required at least two commands, because DELTREE was only available from MS-DOS 6.0 onwards
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  8.  @thesteelrodent1796  Integrated command line help via the /? parameter was only available from MS-DOS 5.0 onwards. The same applies to the help command. In addition, MS-DOS 4 had a significant memory consumption in conventional RAM and was therefore very unpopular. The big leap was therefore MS-DOS 5.0. MOVE was only available from MS-DOS 6.0 onwards.
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  9. There was interactive learning software that taught you DOS by creating a DOS-like environment in which you were introduced to various commands step by step. For example, Microsoft Learning DOS. Third-party companies offered programs such as DOS Tutor. But you didn't really need that if you were able to read and understand the DOS manual.
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  10.  @phill6859  Windows 3.0 had cooperative multitasking for win16 applications and preemptive multitasking for DOS applications running in enhanced mode on a 386 by using its VM86 support. And Windows 3.0 had its own kernel moving the DOS kernel out of the way. See the interview with Raymond Chen at Dave's Garage.
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