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- From: bangell@cs.utah.edu (bob angell)
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Date: 3 Jan 93 23:48:00 MST
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.234800.17762@hellgate.utah.edu>
- References: <1993Jan02.025323.15888@microsoft.com> <1993Jan2.045054.6544@wam.umd.edu> <1993Jan2.232052.7082@gw.wmich.edu> <1i5tblINN694@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- >[I deleted a lot--I hope the attribution is correct.]
- >
- >|>
- >|> Might I offer a suggestion? Perhaps the
- >|> warning was to prevent the user from installing the DOS6
- >|> beta using the Stacker-like disk compression program. This
- >|> would, quite simply, render OS/2 unusable.
- >
- >Really? I have 260Mb on my system - none of it FAT. If I took one
- >partition--say 20Mb and made it a DOS 6 FAT bootable partition, that
- >would make OS/2 unusable? The compressed FAT partition might not be
-
- what I meant to say was that it would render data-sharing unusable
- between the two operating systems....did not mean it would render
- OS/2 unusable unless it was set-up as a dual-boot ... then one will
- have problems.
-
- >accessable by OS/2, but that hardly makes OS/2 'unusable.'
- >
- >By the way, besides disk compression, why would I want DOS 6? What are
- >the features that make me want to change from OS/2? Memory management
- >is a non issue. About the only thing I can think of is if I was
- >developing software and I wanted to check DOS 6 compatability.
- >
- >Can anyone suggest advantages for DOS6?
- >--
- >Bruce Dubbs | Oxymorons of note:
- >bdubbs@neuron.tamu.edu | Honest Politician, Political Science,
- > | Scrupulous Lawyer
- -Bob-
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