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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.180749.10707@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec22.161425.0299694@locus.com> <1992Dec22.201103.28693@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec22.234828.0203999@locus.com> <1992Dec28.201454.20862@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:07:49 GMT
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- In <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...
-
- Well, let's see if we can help you out a bit. He has DR-DOS6 and Win3
- and they play nicely together. MS then 'upgrades' (bug fixes) Win3 to
- Win31, and suddenly DR-DOS6 and Win don't play together anymore. On
- top of that, MS refuses to let DR Beta advanced copies so that they
- can fix everything right "because they are the competition".
-
- Now then, do you understand why people would wonder about it when that
- kind of thing happens with a company whose direction is set by Bill
- "It isn't done until 1,2,3 won't run on it" Gates?
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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