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- From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan02.094926.14462@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 09:49:26 GMT
- References: <1993Jan1.133731.2312@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> <1993Jan02.025323.15888@microsoft.com>
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- 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?
-
- If DOS is advanced enough to detect the presence of potential
- disk hoggers (what does it do? Keep a database?) it should
- certainly be smart enough to tell if there is room enough.
- If it finds too little room, it should just say so, not
- indicate anything as a potential problem. It is silly to
- give messages like, X detected. If there are many X's which
- one would be the problem? If there are no X's then what to
- do? No piece of software should be a smartass, let the user
- decide what he does and does not need.
-
- Erik
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