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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: <1993Jan2.233019.7084@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 23:30:19 EST
- References: <1993Jan1.133731.2312@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> <1993Jan02.025323.15888@microsoft.com> <1993Jan02.094926.14462@donau.et.tudelft.nl> <1993Jan2.220817.1977@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>
- Organization: Western Michigan University
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- In article <1993Jan2.220817.1977@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>, jmalloy@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Joseph T. Malloy) writes:
- > 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?
- >
- > IOW, it may not be quite the nefarious plot some think, but it certainly
- > is more fun to think of it as a plot!
- >
- > Joe Malloy
- > German Deparment
- > Hamilton College
- > Clinton, NY
- >
-
-
- OH yea, OS/2 is practically hidden on the hard disk. I wouldn't
- nor would anyone else capable of deleting it themselves be able to
- tell it was even installed on the hard drive if DOS 6 didn't tell us.
-
- (for MS people, that was sarcasm).
-
- -Brad
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- >
- >
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