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- From: TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller)
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <C074n9.G02@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 22:18:44 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan1.133731.2312@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>,
- z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
- >
- > I Recently talked to a Beta Tester of DOS 6.0. He Runs OS/2 with 2 Hard
- >Drives, One FAT, One HPFS. He decided to Install the DOS 6.0 Beta on the FAT
- >Partition, and got a Message saying, and I paraphrase:
- >
- >- OS/2 Detected! Due to the size of OS/2 you may wish to delete your OS/2
- >files before installing DOS 6.0 -
- >
- > His Fat Partition was created by DOS 5.0 and he is running Boot
- >Manager. DOS 6.0 Beta either looked at the Boot Manager setup or detected
- >HPFS on the D: Drive. In either case he had over 150MB Free on each Partition!
- >
-
- Well, look at it this way... we don't have to buy DOS 6.0 since
- we don't even need 5.0 anymore. And besides, anybody who has OS/2
- on their machine isn't very likely to decide they want the latest
- version of DOS. I can guarantee that I won't be getting it, and
- many other people I know (like my dad, who has bought DOS since
- around version 2 or so) won't either because they either don't need
- it or they now use OS/2.
-
-
- >So The next time I hear a Micro$oftie say "IT's IBM spreading FUD not us" The
- >DOS 6.0 Beta will immediately come to mind! It's Simply BULLS**T!!!!
- >
-
- Besides, won't IBM also have access a PC-DOS 6.0 which will be
- equivalent to MS-DOS 6.0? Just wondering. BTW, has anybody seen
- those adds for PC-DOS+Stacker+386Max? If I was going to buy DOS
- now, that's the sort of thing I would go for!!
-
- Timothy Miller
-
-