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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.224255.27090@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- References: <1992Dec31.035545.3621@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:42:55 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec29.194318.27886@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- > >bobatk@microsoft.com (Bob Atkinson) writes:
- > >:
- > >: 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?
- > >
- >
- > Oh, this is rich. The only way that DR-DOS could get perfect
- > MS-DOS emulation is if they had the source code.
-
- Really? And presumably, by the same argument, the only way an AMD386
- could provide perfect emulation of an Intel 386 is if AMD had access
- to the original Intel drawings?
-
- Never heard of functional specifications?
-
- > This source
- > code wasn't provided to them by Microsoft. Therefore, Microsoft
- > is a grand evil company for not turning over the hard work of
- > hundreds of engineers to their competitors.
-
- Nah, they're just evil, period.
-
- --
- 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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