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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.202335.4960@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- References: <1993Jan03.000549.23048@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 20:23:35 GMT
- Lines: 59
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- philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- : In article <1993Jan2.024108.2313@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
- : >In article <1993Jan02.025323.15888@microsoft.com>, philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- : >> In article <1993Jan1.133731.2312@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> 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 -
- : >>
- : >> Interesting. What is the problem with that? If there was a
- : >> similar message that said "Autocad detected. Due to the size of
- : >> Autocad you may wish to delete your Autocad files before installing
- : >> DOS 6.0", whould that be bad too?
- : >>
- : > The Problem is simple. There is no need for such a message. If there
- : >was insufficient disk space, a simple "Insufficient Disk Space" would be
- : >enough. Unless of course you wanted to to spread FUD
- :
- : Point A: We have no idea what the actual message is. I'll wager
- : that it _isn't_ what was quote above (in fact, you admit that it's
- : "paraphrased" _and_ secondhand.). There are several good reasons why
- : you wouldn't want to run the DOS 6 Beta (and note, it is a beta) and
- : OS/2 on the same machine.
- :
- :
- : >F-Fear- Fear that Using OS/2 and DOS on the same machine would be dangerous.
- :
- : It is. DOS 6 may make your FAT partitions unreadable by
- : OS/2 or other operating systems.
-
- Including DOS 5 presumably?
-
- :
- : >Uncertainty - Make the User uncertain about using DOS and OS/2 at the same
- : >time.
- :
- : As well they should be. It is a beta product, after all.
-
- I thought they already knew that - or is this a tacit admission that
- anyone using a MS beta product must be stupid?
- :
- :
- : >Doubt - Make the User Doubt OS/2, after all OS/2 didn't even say that there
- : >might be a problem, but DOS is so great that it warns a user of
- : >impending danger.
- :
- : This is a bit ludicrous, don't you think?
-
- Exactly.
- --
- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
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