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What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?

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271 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 13 May 25 11:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ryandrake ◴[16 May 25 17:16 UTC] No.44007802[source]▶
One thing the article did not answer is “why?” I think I am missing something but why did Microsoft feel they needed to ship icons for other software vendors’ applications? Wouldn’t Lotus and Quicken want to ship their own icons with their software?
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1. ok123456 ◴[16 May 25 17:32 UTC] No.44007952[source]▶
Part of the Windows 3.1 installer would search your hard drive for existing applications and add them to the Program Manager. Many of these were DOS applications that had no embedded icon resources. To keep them from all being default applications, they used this little DLL database of icons.