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- From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
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- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.215839.21242@sequent.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 21:58:39 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan02.092930.14266@donau.et.tudelft.nl> linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
- >philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Dec31.224255.27090@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- >>>philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- >>>> In article <1992Dec29.194318.27886@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- >>>> >
- >>>> >And if the fact that DRDOS's emulation is imperfect because of
- >>>> >information held back by Mircrosoft?
- >>>> >
- >>>>
- >>>> Oh, this is rich. The only way that DR-DOS could get perfect
- >>>> MS-DOS emulation is if they had the source code.
- >>>
- >>>Really? And presumably, by the same argument, the only way an AMD386
- >>>could provide perfect emulation of an Intel 386 is if AMD had access
- >>>to the original Intel drawings?
- >
- >> Yes! That's exactly my point. They can get close, but they
- >>aren't going to be 100% the same as Intel unless, well, they are
- >>100% the same.
- >
- >Wrong sir. If they stick to the architectural design, it doesn't matter
- >what they use to implement it. They could just stick it in a
- >ROM or PLA, as long as it meets the architectural specs., it will
- >fuction exactly the same as the other product.
- >
-
- That's very true. If you read DOBBS latest issue, there are
- numerous advertisements for ROMed DOS and other varients. I know
- some of them work extremely well in embedded systems, having used
- one or two.
-
- What I suspect happened to DR-DOS is the self-proclaimed "experts"
- at networking, read IPX, (grin, chortle), bought DR and now want to
- be DOS experts and do things their way, :):). Whenever you have as
- high an NIH factor as Novell at any company, I have seen this kind
- thing happen, because the engineering group won't leave it alone
- and get the basics down first, before adding the pretties.
-
- JMHO..
-
-
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