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- From: bobatk@microsoft.com (Bob Atkinson)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.201454.20862@microsoft.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 20:14:54 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec22.161425.0299694@locus.com> <1992Dec22.201103.28693@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec22.234828.0203999@locus.com>
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- Lowell Morrison writes:
- >>*sigh* is anybody forcing people to buy MS DOS at $100 a copy?
- >>
- >Effectively Yes. The senario is this, I have a PC (It was given to me
- >by a well meaning relitive, it is loaded with DR-DOS 6.0), I need to run
- >The most wonderful word processor in the world (Word Perfect 5.2, or
- >some other non-MS windows based word processor), I go out an buy Windows
- >3.1 (I am not stupid so I get it for $79 at Egghead on sale) and this
- >Wonderful Word Processor. All of a sudden I find out that Windows 3.1 won't
- >run under my version of DR-DOS, so I go back to Egghead and am forced to pay
- >full price (minus the egghead discount) for DOS. I ain't happy with
- >Microsoft.
-
-
- I'm confused; perhaps you can help me out of my confusion.
-
- 1. You have DR-DOS6.0, a clone of MSDOS.
- 2. You buy Win3.1, an MS product that was designed to
- work with MSDOS. And indeed it does, as you note.
- 3. You find that Win3.1 doesn't work with DR-DOS6.0
-
- Then:
- 4. You complain to MS, not DR, about the problem.
-
- See my confusion? Doesn't the problem have to do with the fidelity
- of the MSDOS emulation done by DR-DOS? Or am I missing something?
- I'd genuinely like to know...
-
-
- Bob Atkinson
- Microsoft (just a random engineer...)
-