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- From: lowell@locus.com (Lowell Morrison)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.235054.0201318@locus.com>
- Organization: Locus Computing Corp, Los Angeles
- References: <1992Dec22.201103.28693@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec22.234828.0203999@locus.com> <1992Dec28.201454.20862@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:50:54 GMT
- Lines: 48
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- In article <1992Dec28.201454.20862@microsoft.com> bobatk@microsoft.com (Bob Atkinson) writes:
- >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...)
-
- Well, Bob, it has something to do with the large number of trade rag
- articles about MS refused to give information to DR that they were giving
- to other vendors about how to make their program work with Windows 3.1.
- It also has been reported by various and sundry informants, that
- "It ain't finished till DR-Dos won't run it" (inrequards to Windows).
-
- For this reason, I feel that if these reports are true (and I know that
- Windows 3.1 violates the DPMI standards promilgated by MS from other
- reliable sources), I can indeed blame MS. If Windows Violates
- standards, it is Windows problem, not DR's DOS Emulation, their product
- follows the standard. That is it, plain and simple.
-
- --Lowell Morrison
- --Uncle Wolf
-
-