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- From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.225053.3351@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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- Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
- Organization: Techn. Univ. Clausthal
- References: <1993Jan1.133731.2312@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> <1993Jan02.025323.15888@microsoft.com> <1993Jan02.094926.14462@donau.et.tudelft.nl> <1993Jan03.000730.23120@microsoft.com> <1993Jan2.225717.2321@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:50:53 GMT
-
- In <1993Jan2.225717.2321@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
- >In article <1993Jan03.000730.23120@microsoft.com>, philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- >> There are good reasons why DOS 6 should inform you that
- >> it might be incompatible with the other operating systems you
- >> have installed on your system. I hope it gives a similar message
- >> if you install on a system that contains Windows NT.
- >>
- >> -Phil
- >>
- >
- > Good reasons??? Give us a good reason why NT refuses to install if
- >it detects OS/2? This started with the October Beta. not with earlier ones.
- >
- >If you are going to say something like well NT needs to be there first, give a
- >good reason. NT is supposed to run on HPFS and FAT right?
-
- This is a simple bug and Microsoft provided a fix for it very soon. Let's
- simply wait for the next NT release and we will see, what happens. I think,
- that 0x0A will recognized as a MOST partition correctly.
- >
- >OK, I don't have the exact text of the message, but the tester told me that DOS
- >6 suggested that OS/2 be deleted. That much was very clear. He was shocked by
- >that message.
- >
- Let's hope, that he actually survived this shock.
-
- Christoph
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