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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan04.043019.11266@microsoft.com>
- Date: 04 Jan 93 04:30:19 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1993Jan2.004712.10346@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> <1993Jan02.091939.18120@microsoft.com> <8292@lib.tmc.edu>
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- In article <8292@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan02.091939.18120@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- >> If you claim to be 100% Intel compatible, and your processor
- >>exhibits difference in behavior from Intel's, should Intel be
- >>responsible for changing their product?
- >
- >If you claim to be 100% Intel compatible, and your processor exhibits
- >identical performance to an Intel processor's documented behavior, you _are_
- >Intel compatible.
-
- Umm, yes. Is your rebuttal to my statement to merely state
- the converse?
-
-
- >> You bring up functional specifications below - the fact is,
- >>MS-DOS doesn't have a rigid one that would allow a clone
- >>to be written.
- >
- >By default, then, MS-DOS' published API qualifies,
-
- Why are you qualified to determine what the default functional
- specification is?
-
-
- > especially since MS will
- >tell you every time you turn around that that's all a programmer should
- >use...never mind that MS breaks that rule regularly...
-
- Doesn't sound like a rule - sounds like a suggestion.
-
-
- >>Digital Research must have done a lot of
- >>reverse engineering, with quite a bit of guesswork. They
- >>got very close - they didn't quite make 100%.
- >
- >They made 100% to MS-DOS' published API. Since MS says that that's all an
- >application developer can depend on, that should be enough.
-
- Yup. But Microsoft doesn't say that all future Microsoft systems
- products will rely only on the published MS-DOS APIs. Never said
- it.
-
-
- >>I'm sure that
- >>as further incompatibilities are revealed, they will fix them
- >>as well.
- >
- >That should read, "as further MS violations of their own rules are revealed,
- >DR will add compatible unpublished interfaces as well."
-
- Jay, these "rules" that you're so fond of quoting - can you
- tell me where they are published? Put up or shut up, Jay.
-
-
- >>But I don't expect to see "DR-DOS" applications
- >>coming out any time soon, and until then, the people who
- >>buy DR-DOS to run their MS-DOS apps are basically taking the
- >>gamble that it's going to work. It's a good bet, but it
- >>isn't 100%.
- >
- >If MS followed the rules, it WOULD be 100%. MS has the power to break DR-DOS
- >at will, and all external indications are that they have done exactly that.
-
- There are those pesky rules again - where are they? In your
- own head?
- You have yet to show evidence that Microsoft did anything to
- intentionally break DR-DOS. Put up or shut up, Jay.
-
- -Phil
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- philipla@microsoft.com Redmond, WA 98052-6399
- Note: Microsoft doesn't even _know_ that these are my opinions. So there.
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