Talk:AARD code

message: This article is extremely weak. But one of the inexcusable errors was attempting to attribute 'AARD' to Aaron Reynolds. This was a flagrant trick: the two articles referenced did not say anything about the origin. What is known is that Andrew Schulman found the string 'AARD' in the code and began referring to it as such. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.201.25.174 (talk • contribs) 
: Actually, it was Geoff Chappell, who stumbled upon this code first and discussed it with Andrew Schulman and others. "AARD" are for sure Aaron Reynolds' personal initials, as he used them in various pieces of code, including before and after the discovery of the "AARD code" - if you want a more recent example, just look at some of the disk driver data structures in Windows 98 and then read some of the corresponding Microsoft patents. Also, after the Caldera vs. Microsoft law suit there is not the slightest doubt, that it was in fact Mr. Reynolds, who wrote this code.88.77.214.179 (talk) 20:57, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin of Name

message: I've made some fairly substantial copy edits to this article since it appeared to be a jumbled up mess.  Events were out of chronological order, and several points were only covered as part of the Caldera/Microsoft lawsuit when they actually happened much earlier.  Hopefully things are a little clearer now. CrispMuncher (talk) 15:05, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major copyedit 

message: I read somewhere in the EN wiki (don't remember where) that Microsoft also used AARD code in QuickPascal. So it is not Win 3.1 Beta exclusive mechanism. It should be added here, too. --87.165.167.183 (talk) 03:45, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS#Use_of_undocumented_APIs ? --87.165.167.111 (talk) 01:13, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
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message: If this was only ever active in a beta and not in the final release, then why did Microsoft have to pay so much money?  -- Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.61.180.106 (talk) 09:46, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The short and non-technically-legal answer is because it was a major Fear, uncertainty, and doubt maneuver... AnonMoos (talk) 05:40, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why so much money?