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- — The Second Life of Autoconf for MS-DOS
Before GNU Autoconf generated configure scripts, there was a DOS program called Autoconf. It let you keep one CONFIG.SYS and one AUTOEXEC.BAT, then choose among boot configurati...
- — Autoconf: Maybe the First Example of Microsoft Pushing Features into the OS to Kill a Competitor
Update, September 2026: I found the original 1991 SVM article, identified and contacted its author, rebuilt both the original and later versions, and reconstructed Autoconf’s hi...
- — Autoconf: world's best multiple configurations software
This was my first commercial product. It has been available for a while with full x86 assembly source code. It’s useful if you still run a DOS system ;)
- — Can you believe it? I wrote this code over 10 years ago...
I wonder whether it still compiles and runs.