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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan03.075933.945@microsoft.com>
- Date: 03 Jan 93 07:59:33 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1993Jan2.045054.6544@wam.umd.edu> <1993Jan2.232052.7082@gw.wmich.edu> <1i5tblINN694@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- In article <1i5tblINN694@tamsun.tamu.edu> bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan2.232052.7082@gw.wmich.edu> x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:
- >
- >[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.
- >
- >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.'
-
- OS/2 should still work just fine, but it wouldn't be able
- to read the compressed FAT partition. I expect that any warning
- message is intended to convey exactly this information.
-
-
- >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?
-
- To be honest, I'm not sure what I can say about the product and
- what is confidential. So I won't field this one.
- I don't believe that DOS 6 is intended to attract users
- away from OS/2, but then again, what do I know?
-
- -Phil
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