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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan04.042648.11136@microsoft.com>
- Date: 04 Jan 93 04:26:48 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec31.224255.27090@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> <1993Jan01.191432.10082@microsoft.com> <8290@lib.tmc.edu>
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- In article <8290@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan01.191432.10082@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec31.224255.27090@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- >>>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.
- >
- >Tell that to Hitachi Data Systems and Amdahl; they produce 100% System/370
- >compatible mainframes from nothing more than the published functional specs
- >(primarily, the System/370 Principles of Operation series).
-
- Until someone discovers a difference.
-
-
- >>>Never heard of functional specifications?
- >> Of course I have. This is why I can't understand when people
- >>complain to Microsoft because DR-DOS didn't meet them exactly.
- >
- >The only reason DR-DOS doesn't meet them exactly, in your view, is that there
- >are interfaces to the DOS that MS uses that aren't published.
-
- Here's a question for you: Why is Microsoft responsible for
- publishing _all_ of the interfaces to MS-DOS?
-
- -Phil
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