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- From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan02.092930.14266@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
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- Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
- References: <1992Dec31.035545.3621@microsoft.com> <1992Dec31.224255.27090@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> <1993Jan01.191432.10082@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 09:29:30 GMT
- Lines: 32
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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.
-
- Wrong sir. If they stick to the architectural design, it doesn't matter
- what they use to implement it. They could just stick it in a
- ROM or PLA, as long as it meets the architectural specs., it will
- fuction exactly the same as the other product.
-
- Erik
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