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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- Date: 4 Jan 1993 16:17:48 GMT
- References: <1993Jan01.191432.10082@microsoft.com> <8290@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan04.042648.11136@microsoft.com>
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- In article <1993Jan04.042648.11136@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- >In article <8290@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >>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.
-
- Have you ever dealt with S/370 compatible systems? I have, and my institution
- is in the process of letting bids for an acquisition that may result in our
- acquiring one. I was involved with writing the RFP, and will be involved with
- evaluating the bids; as lead MVS systems programmer, I will be in charge of
- installing and maintaining the OS that the machine will run. Part of the bid
- specs are that the system run ALL S/370 binaries with no alterations or
- additions. I fully expect that HDS and Amdahl will submit bids. I've spoken to
- more HDS and Amdahl customers than I care to think about, and not a single
- blessed one of them has reported the slightest incompatibility.
-
- In short, you don't know what you're talking about. The machines _are_
- completely, absolutely, positively, overnight, 100% compatible.
-
- >>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?
-
- Because it's the right thing to do? Naw; after all, MS has never done that
- just because it's the right thing to do...
- --
- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
- "Science is all in the public domain, and allows few secrets."
- -- Tom Clancy, _The Sum of all Fears_
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