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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.045054.6544@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan1.133731.2312@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> <1993Jan02.025323.15888@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 04:50:54 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan02.025323.15888@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan1.133731.2312@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> 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 -
- >
- > Interesting. What is the problem with that? If there was a
- >similar message that said "Autocad detected. Due to the size of
- >Autocad you may wish to delete your Autocad files before installing
- >DOS 6.0", whould that be bad too?
-
-
- Might I offer a suggestion? Perhaps the
- warning was to prevent the user from installing the DOS6
- beta using the Stacker-like disk compression program. This
- would, quite simply, render OS/2 unusable.
-
- The wording, as given, doesn't say that (although "size"
- seems to hint) but then again, it doesn't sound like
- a real rendition of the error message anyway, rather, it
- was a screechy rendition by a fanatic.
-
- In any case, why don't we wait forat least one verification
- before making accusations left and right.
-
-
-
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