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- From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.222020.21793@sequent.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 22:20:20 GMT
- Article-I.D.: sequent.1993Jan2.222020.21793
- References: <19142@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- In article <19142@mindlink.bc.ca> Ian_Upright@mindlink.bc.ca (Ian Upright) writes:
- >> z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
- >>
- >> All this talk about FUD & Misinformation about OS/2 from Microsoft
- >> has
- >> some NEW Merit!
- >>
- >> I Recently talked to a Beta Tester of DOS 6.0. He Runs OS/2 with 2
- >> Hard
- >> Drives, One FAT, One HPFS. He decided to Install the DOS 6.0 Beta on the
- >> FAT
- >> Partition, and got a Message saying, and I paraphrase:
- >>
- >> - OS/2 Detected! Due to the size of OS/2 you may wish to delete your OS/2
- >> files before installing DOS 6.0 -
- >>
- >> His Fat Partition was created by DOS 5.0 and he is running Boot
- >> Manager. DOS 6.0 Beta either looked at the Boot Manager setup or detected
- >> HPFS on the D: Drive. In either case he had over 150MB Free on each
- >> Partition!
- >>
- >
- >
- >Looks like IBM & Novell are going to get together BIG TIME! Nobody wants
- >a product that is incompatable, especially purposely so, so everybody will
- >toss Dos 6.0 off to the side, and move to Dr. Dos 7 instead anyways.. And
- >you can be darn sure to *bet* that it's going to be fully compatable with
- >OS/2, and then some. Microsoft is just stabbing themselves in the back with
- >non-standards of Dos 6, W4W, and NT! Any company with that attitude allready
- >knows that they are in some *serious* trouble, and they probably won't be
- >around for very long anyways.. :) How nice.. Imagine.. A world without
- >Microsoft.. Doesn't it sound pleasant?
- >
- >
-
- Dont bet on it. IBM doesn't need DR-DOS. They have OS/2, which does
- both DOS and Windows, plus OS/2 apps. Why should they climb in bed
- with Novell ? Why do you think Novell is trying to buy USl to rape,
- pillage and burn UNIX by assimilating it into Netware rather than
- taking their laughable IPX and bundling it with UNIX ?
-
- IBM still owns their own version of DOS, and it plays very well
- without the additional goodies that DR-DOS provides. Besides,
- what's Novell going to do with DR-DOS that IBM can't do with PS-DOS
- ?
-
- JMHO...
-
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