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3 unusual facts about ETen Chinese System


ETen Chinese System

DOS did not support Chinese characters, which are not in Extended ASCII.

Their software (only) Chinese systems were widely copied by many traditional Chinese users and software pirates, but this was difficult for E-TEN to control.

The developer of the Eten OS, E-TEN, earned their early profits from sales of their hardware based plug-in card based Chinese system products.



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