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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan05.212451.24206@microsoft.com>
- Date: 05 Jan 93 21:24:51 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1993Jan4.004352.29449@wam.umd.edu> <8297@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan4.162944.29921@wam.umd.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan4.162944.29921@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >In article <8297@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan4.004352.29449@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >>> The only clearly anti-competitive practices that MS has attempted
- >>> to engage in was the DRDOS6/Win31 problem, which was a simple
- >>> fix (MSwindows looked for DRDOS and wouldn't run with it. There
- >>> was no *compatibility* problem.)
- >>
- >>Tell that to Phil Lafornara. He's called it unfounded.
- >
- > Well, he's wrong. The problem with DRDOS was that Windows
- > checked for something at startup to determine if it was an
- > MS version of DOS (which includes the IBM version). Windows
- > itself would work just fine, regardless of this. (I believe
- > it was 1 identifier bit).
-
- Please supply a reference for this and I'll look into it.
-
- -Phil
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