Before there was Boot Camp, there were DOS Compatibility Cards
December 10th, 2009
With our zippy Intel Macs able to eagerly boot up Windows 7 in Boot Camp, VMWare, Parallels, and VirtualBox, it’s difficult to fathom that it was ever a problem to run Microsoft operating systems on our Apple boxes.
The situation wasn’t that good just a scant 15 or so years ago. Back in the bleak days before the triumphant return of Steve Jobs to 1 Infinite Loop, Apple had a broad and confusing product line. Since DOS and Windows 3.1 were already entrenched in business worldwide, Apple knew that they had to have a way for Macs to run Microsoft operating systems in order to gain any sort of traction in the corporate world.
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