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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: 3 Jan 1993 05:25:09 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
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- In article <1993Jan2.232052.7082@gw.wmich.edu> x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:
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- [I deleted a lot--I hope the attribution is correct.]
-
- |>
- |> 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.
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- Really? I have 260Mb on my system - none of it FAT. If I took one
- partition--say 20Mb and made it a DOS 6 FAT bootable partition, that
- would make OS/2 unusable? The compressed FAT partition might not be
- accessable by OS/2, but that hardly makes OS/2 'unusable.'
-
- By the way, besides disk compression, why would I want DOS 6? What are
- the features that make me want to change from OS/2? Memory management
- is a non issue. About the only thing I can think of is if I was
- developing software and I wanted to check DOS 6 compatability.
-
- Can anyone suggest advantages for DOS6?
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- Bruce Dubbs | Oxymorons of note:
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- | Scrupulous Lawyer
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