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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
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- Date: 29 Dec 1992 00:30:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.201454.20862@microsoft.com> bobatk@microsoft.com (Bob Atkinson) writes:
- > 1. You have DR-DOS6.0, a clone of MSDOS.
-
- Don't forget: 1a. You have Windows 3.0. It works fine with DR-DOS 6.0.
-
- > 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...
-
- Yes, you're missing something. When an upgrade of an MS product doesn't work
- with another OS on the system, and when the OS is written to duplicate
- published MS-DOS functionality, then it's real hard to escape the conclusion
- that the upgrade was deliberately set up to break with the other OS...like,
- maybe, using undocumented interfaces to the OS...
-
- "We don't have to follow our own rules. We're Microsoft."
- --
- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
- "Brought to you by the letters O, S, and by the number 2." -- Mike Levis
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