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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
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- From: petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly)
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for OS/2!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan04.051525.12326@microsoft.com>
- Date: 04 Jan 93 05:15:25 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp.
- References: <1993Jan2.225717.2321@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> <1993Jan1.133731.2312@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> <1993Jan02.025323.15888@microsoft.com> <1993Jan02.094926.14462@donau.et.tudelft.nl> <1993Jan03.000730.23120@microsoft.com>
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- In article <1993Jan2.225717.2321@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu wrote:
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- >
- > 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.
- >
- > 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?
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- How's this for a good reason.
- Imcompatabilities between the OS/2 boot manager and the NT boot manager.
- Which one get's to own the boot sector? It seems to be a lot easier to
- wrangle the OS/2 boot sector into a form compatable with the NT multiboot
- manager than the other way around, unless your a professional DEBUG
- user, that is.
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- petesk@microsoft.com
- My Opinions...
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