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  1. Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.advocacy:11476 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:3637
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!lib!oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu!jmaynard
  3. From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
  5. Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
  6. Message-ID: <8290@lib.tmc.edu>
  7. Date: 3 Jan 1993 15:08:38 GMT
  8. References: <1992Dec31.035545.3621@microsoft.com> <1992Dec31.224255.27090@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> <1993Jan01.191432.10082@microsoft.com>
  9. Sender: usenet@lib.tmc.edu
  10. Followup-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy
  11. Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston
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  14.  
  15. In article <1993Jan01.191432.10082@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
  16. >In article <1992Dec31.224255.27090@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
  17. >>Really? And presumably, by the same argument, the only way an AMD386
  18. >>could provide perfect emulation of an Intel 386 is if AMD had access
  19. >>to the original Intel drawings?
  20. >     Yes!  That's exactly my point.  They can get close, but they
  21. >aren't going to be 100% the same as Intel unless, well, they are
  22. >100% the same.
  23.  
  24. Tell that to Hitachi Data Systems and Amdahl; they produce 100% System/370
  25. compatible mainframes from nothing more than the published functional specs
  26. (primarily, the System/370 Principles of Operation series).
  27.  
  28. >>Never heard of functional specifications?
  29. >   Of course I have.  This is why I can't understand when people
  30. >complain to Microsoft because DR-DOS didn't meet them exactly.
  31.  
  32. The only reason DR-DOS doesn't meet them exactly, in your view, is that there
  33. are interfaces to the DOS that MS uses that aren't published.
  34.  
  35. -- 
  36. Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
  37. jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
  38.  "Brought to you by the letters O, S, and by the number 2." -- Mike Levis
  39.