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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan03.075159.29224@microsoft.com>
- Date: 03 Jan 93 07:51:59 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <19153@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- In article <19153@mindlink.bc.ca> Ian_Upright@mindlink.bc.ca (Ian Upright) writes:
- >> Phil Lafornara writes:
- >>
- >> Org. : Microsoft Corporation
- >>
- >> >F-Fear- Fear that Using OS/2 and DOS on the same machine would be
- >> dangerous.
- >>
- >> It is. DOS 6 may make your FAT partitions unreadable by
- >> OS/2 or other operating systems.
- >
- >
- >Well hell.. I won't be going near DOS 6.0 with a ten foot pole!
- >Is it just me, or does microsoft *really* think that making things
- >incompatable is really a "feature".. How nice.. Now thats what I call
- >advancement!
-
- It's a feature if it gives you some benefit. In this case
- the incompatibility introduced is due to disk compression - OS/2
- won't be able to recognize it, at least initially.
- But yes, for people who run multiple operating systems and
- expect to be able to access their FAT partitions from all of them,
- that disk compression will be a bad idea and probably shouldn't
- be used.
-
- -Phil
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- philipla@microsoft.com Redmond, WA 98052-6399
- Note: Microsoft doesn't even _know_ that these are my opinions. So there.
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