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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.004712.10346@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- References: <1993Jan01.191432.10082@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 00:47:12 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- : In article <1992Dec31.224255.27090@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- : >philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- : >> In article <1992Dec29.194318.27886@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- : >> >
- : >> >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?
- :
- : Yes! That's exactly my point. They can get close, but they
- : aren't going to be 100% the same as Intel unless, well, they are
- : 100% the same.
-
- Oh please! Emulation does *not* mean running identically *internally*.
- I suggest you read any textbook on abstract data types.
-
- :
- : >Never heard of functional specifications?
- :
- : Of course I have. This is why I can't understand when people
- : complain to Microsoft because DR-DOS didn't meet them exactly.
-
- If this is indeed the case. There do however seem to be plebnty of
- people claiming to have evidence to the contrary.
- --
- 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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