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- Subject: Let's DUMP Mostly-Shit
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.021830.1@vax1.umkc.edu>
- From: ghdai@vax1.umkc.edu
- Date: 24 Dec 92 02:18:30 CST
- Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City
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- >> Saying that windows 3.1 was not a strict implimentation of the dpmi specs
- >> is an understatement. It was in direct violation of them. Which is ironic
- >> because microsoft developed the specs to begin with.
- >>
- >> The way dpmi should work is that any dpmi program should check to see if
- >> there was any dpmi server running, and if so, allow it to allocate the
- >> memory. This way, more than one dpmi program could be run at the same time.
- >> Windows 3.1 refuses to allow any other dpmi memory server but it's own.
- >>
- >
- >Could there be any legitimate reason for this type of behaviour or is MS
- >trying to prevent other people's software from working correctly with
- >Windows?
-
- Probably! This is my experience today, which may be viewed as a kind of
- second evidence.
-
- Since I am not able to find any Scanner software that works with Mustek
- MFS-3000C flat-bed scanner under OS/2 for 3 months, I was "ordered" by my
- boss to re-partition the hard drive of our OS/2-only machine. I installed
- OS/2 first (on logical D:) according to the suggestion of the manual.
- Then I started to install Mess-DOS 5.0 to the primary partition (C:). The
- setup program insisted on formating drive D: -- it wants to take control of
- every-bit of the hard drive -- annoying? The same thing happened when I
- started to install Winbloze garbage (I kicked it out 3 months ago, very
- happily; however, the scanner software -- damned Picture Publisher from
- MicroGrafx is a windoze program).
-
- In comparison, OS/2 is polite. It simply does not care other un-formatted
- partitions. Recall recently Mr. Sipples' post that NT refuses installation
- on machines with OS/2 already installed? Come on, everybody, let's DUMP
- Mostly-Shit, anyway!
-