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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan03.000730.23120@microsoft.com>
- Date: 03 Jan 93 00:07:30 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1993Jan1.133731.2312@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> <1993Jan02.025323.15888@microsoft.com> <1993Jan02.094926.14462@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
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- In article <1993Jan02.094926.14462@donau.et.tudelft.nl> linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
- >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.
-
- Once again, we don't have the actual text of the warning
- message. What we do have is essentially a diatribe by a person
- who uses too many exclamation points.
-
-
- >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.
-
- There are good reasons why DOS 6 should inform you that
- it might be incompatible with the other operating systems you
- have installed on your system. I hope it gives a similar message
- if you install on a system that contains Windows NT.
-
- -Phil
-
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