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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.194318.27886@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- References: <1992Dec28.201454.20862@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:43:18 GMT
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- 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...
-
- And if the fact that DRDOS's emulation is imperfect because of
- information held back by Mircrosoft?
-
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- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
- Email: (dbarker@spang.camosun.bc.ca)
- Phone: +1 604 370 4452
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