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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan02.091939.18120@microsoft.com>
- Date: 02 Jan 93 09:19:39 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1993Jan01.191432.10082@microsoft.com> <1993Jan2.004712.10346@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
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- In article <1993Jan2.004712.10346@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- >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.
-
- If you claim to be 100% Intel compatible, and your processor
- exhibits difference in behavior from Intel's, should Intel be
- responsible for changing their product?
- You bring up functional specifications below - the fact is,
- MS-DOS doesn't have a rigid one that would allow a clone
- to be written. Digital Research must have done a lot of
- reverse engineering, with quite a bit of guesswork. They
- got very close - they didn't quite make 100%. I'm sure that
- as further incompatibilities are revealed, they will fix them
- as well. But I don't expect to see "DR-DOS" applications
- coming out any time soon, and until then, the people who
- buy DR-DOS to run their MS-DOS apps are basically taking the
- gamble that it's going to work. It's a good bet, but it
- isn't 100%.
-
-
- >: >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.
-
- None of this evidence has been presented.
- BTW, I have evidence that Elvis is alive and well and
- living in my refrigerator.
-
- -Phil
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- Note: Microsoft doesn't even _know_ that these are my opinions. So there.
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