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- From: bangell@cs.utah.edu (bob angell)
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Date: 2 Jan 93 11:00:39 MST
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.110040.19175@hellgate.utah.edu>
- References: <1993Jan1.133731.2312@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> <1993Jan02.025323.15888@microsoft.com> <1993Jan02.094926.14462@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
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- >>> All this talk about FUD & Misinformation about OS/2 from Microsoft has
- >>>some NEW Merit!
- while not exactly agreeing with MicroShaft on most of what they produce,
- I must agree that the warning could have been valid after all [see below].
-
- >>> 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?
-
- I think this message and all the hoopla surrounding this is [warning,
- about to read a possible assumption not based on actual tinkering, so
- your mileage may vary] as follows:
-
- DOS 6.0 has some compression schema built-in, therefore, if
- OS/2 **FAT** partitions were present, it would render the
- data-sharing useless (as would DRDOS and other compression
- schemes). Notice that another installed the program on a
- FAT partition with all HPFS drives as the viable partitions
- and may have trouble reading compressed data off of the
- DOS 6.0 partition once he evaluates and plays with it
- awhile. Why the warning was not given in the latter is a
- mystery to me ....
-
- So, folks [Anal-retentives should also include themselves with this
- group if they can get a clue - just this time! 8-0], even though we
- may not necessarily like one company or another (couldn't resist this
- one ... "Can't we all just get along" - Rodney King after the LA
- Riots last spring :-) :-) ) lets not jump to conclusions before the
- verdict is in!! Haven't the OS/2 people learned yet about true FUD
- and false-alarm FUD's??
-
- >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
-
- But, we might want warnings if the data is about to be hosed!
-
- [see above].
-
- >decide what he does and does not need.
- >
- >Erik
- >--
-
- Personally, I think I will stick to DOS 5.0 and all of the other
- possible alternatives.....
-
- -Bob-
-