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- From: x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.232052.7082@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 23:20:52 EST
- References: <1993Jan1.133731.2312@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> <1993Jan02.025323.15888@microsoft.com> <1993Jan2.045054.6544@wam.umd.edu>
- Organization: Western Michigan University
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- In article <1993Jan2.045054.6544@wam.umd.edu>, rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan02.025323.15888@microsoft.com> 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?
- >
- >
- > Might I offer a suggestion? Perhaps the
- > warning was to prevent the user from installing the DOS6
- > beta using the Stacker-like disk compression program. This
- > would, quite simply, render OS/2 unusable.
- >
- > The wording, as given, doesn't say that (although "size"
- > seems to hint) but then again, it doesn't sound like
- > a real rendition of the error message anyway, rather, it
- > was a screechy rendition by a fanatic.
- >
- > In any case, why don't we wait forat least one verification
- > before making accusations left and right.
- >
- I will add that I too heard from a good source that it gives that
- exact message. I am not going to call the FTC, but I may drop Bob Cringely
- a line about it... when it pops into INfoworld, you will know who sent that
- word...
-
- >
- >
- > --
- > Blaming "society" for your problems is like blaming clouds for rain.
- >
- > --- boycott == censorship == closed mindedness == cowardice ---
- > Pain teaches. <for mailing and other info, .plan>
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