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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!philipla
- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for
- Message-ID: <1993Jan08.020833.4494@microsoft.com>
- Date: 08 Jan 93 02:08:33 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <3801.942.uupcb@almac.co.uk>
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- In article <3801.942.uupcb@almac.co.uk> mike.dickson@almac.co.uk (Mike Dickson) writes:
- >PL..>F-Fear- Fear that Using OS/2 and DOS on the same machine would be dangerous
- >PL.. It is. DOS 6 may make your FAT partitions unreadable by
- >PL.. OS/2 or other operating systems.
- >
- >Congratulations, Phil. You may have put lots of people right off using
- >MS-DOS 6.0, irrespective of whatever the finalised code actually does.
-
- Stacker makes your FAT partitions unreadable by OS's that
- don't have Stacker available. This hasn't scared people off.
- The question is whether the benefits of the incompatibility are
- worth the loss in interoperability.
-
- -Phil
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