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- From: bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 16:18:04 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
- Lines: 31
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- References: <1993Jan1.133731.2312@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> <1993Jan02.025323.15888@microsoft.com> <1993Jan2.045054.6544@wam.umd.edu>
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- philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- |>z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
- |>>
- |>>
- |>> 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?
-
- The problem is that it is unprofessional. Yes, OS/2 and MS-DOS are
- competitors that offer some of the same things. No, the warning
- message as stated above is not illegal or immoral. Its just
- inappropriate.
-
- It strikes me that most of the employees at MS are on the young side
- (read that as younger than me :-) ). They may have felt the above
- message was "cute" or "funny". They may not have considered that not
- a few people would consider it "immature". I think MS ends up looking
- small and petty for such things.
- -- Bruce
- --
- Bruce Dubbs | Oxymorons of note:
- bdubbs@neuron.tamu.edu | Honest Politician, Political Science,
- | Scrupulous Lawyer
-