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- From: jmalloy@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Joseph T. Malloy)
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.220817.1977@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>
- Organization: Hamilton College - Clinton, NY
- References: <1993Jan1.133731.2312@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> <1993Jan02.025323.15888@microsoft.com> <1993Jan02.094926.14462@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:08:17 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan02.094926.14462@donau.et.tudelft.nl> linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
- >>>
- >>>- OS/2 Detected! Due to the size of OS/2 you may wish to delete your OS/2
- >>>files before installing DOS 6.0 -
- >
- >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.
- >
- Well, assuming some sort of nasty conspiracy (about software not even
- yet released!) is always mucho fun, but I think there's something else
- going on here. There are a number of people, believe it or not, who try
- OS/2 2.0 and decide it's not for them (as I did, though I have hopes for
- version 2.1 when it appears next summer (which is, by my experience,
- about when IBM will actually ship me a copy!)). Microsoft has already
- had a package deal out in the marketplace for PS/1 (and other True Blue
- machines) that are/might be equipped with OS/2 (DOS 5 and Windows 3.1
- for a 'package' price). This wording (which doesn't quite ring true, as
- far I as can determine, but who knows?) might just be to alert someone
- to make a decision: keep OS/2 or not?
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- IOW, it may not be quite the nefarious plot some think, but it certainly
- is more fun to think of it as a plot!
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- Joe Malloy
- German Deparment
- Hamilton College
- Clinton, NY
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