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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.205950.9531@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- References: <1993Jan1.133731.2312@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:59:50 GMT
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- z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
- :
- : All this talk about FUD & Misinformation about OS/2 from Microsoft has
- : some NEW Merit!
- :
- : 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 -
-
- Well, it's an 'improvement' over DOS 5.0, which absolutely refused to
- install if there were other 'unknown' (i.e. OS/2 - or presumably
- certain flabours of UNIX) present. I had to let DOS reformat my HPFS
- partition and then reinstall OS/2. I was not amused - but then neither
- was I much surprised - my immediate thought was, "typical bloody
- Microsoft, can't get anything right."
-
- --
- 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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