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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan04.043433.11366@microsoft.com>
- Date: 04 Jan 93 04:34:33 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1993Jan02.094926.14462@donau.et.tudelft.nl> <1993Jan03.000730.23120@microsoft.com> <1993Jan2.225717.2321@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan2.225717.2321@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
- >
- > 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.
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- Someone has already posted it, and I don't have that posting
- archived. It had something to do with OS/2's Boot Manager doing
- something unusual with the active partition, if I remember correctly.
-
-
- >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?
-
- Windows NT does run on HPFS and FAT.
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- >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.
-
- Can you contact the tester and get the exact message? It would
- certainly help foster some rational discussion here.
-
- -Phil
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