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- From: roland@spock.uucp (David A. Braun)
- Subject: Re: MICROSOFT IS STACKING THE DECK!
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- References: <1992Oct12.185104.1@vax1.umkc.edu> <i0eXsB3w165w@qed.cts.com> <rdippold.720299737@qualcom>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 01:29:03 GMT
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- In article <rdippold.720299737@qualcom> rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
- >tim@qed.cts.com (Tim Capps) writes:
- >>edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
- >>> MICROSOFT IS STAACKING THE DECK!!
- >
- >>Just think - If you could come up with a book explaining the secrets,
- >>you ought to be able to sell a bunch of 'em! I'd sure buy one. :-)
- >
- >It's called "Undocumented Windows". Head down to your BookStar or
- >whatever and buy one... it's certainly given Microsoft a kick,
- >apparently. No sooner did the book come out then all sorts of
- >documentation for some of these calls magically appeared. Secrets?
- >What Secrets? We have no Secrets! You will tell the FTC that, won't
- >you?
- >
- >The best part is where they say they didn't want people using these
- >calls in their software because they can change or go away in future
- >versions and the software will break.... and they use them in their
- >own software. Well, that's one way to make a bundle of money on
- >forced upgrades.
- >--
- >This may not be the best of all worlds, but it is certainly the most expensive
-
- Only Microsoft would abuse it's customers like that...
-
- Roland.
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- --
- main () { // TRAVELLER, BEYOND LIES MID-WORLD...
-
- !!!"ARRAY EXCEEDS 64K, PLEASE MAKE DATA ELEMENT SMALLER"!!!
- !!"Out of Conventional memory... High memory... Upper memory
- Extended memory... Expanded memory..."!! !!"UNRECOVERABLE APPLICATION ERROR"!!
- Well it worked with DOS, and it doesn't with OS2... Must be
- the OS... The fact that the BIOS was HARDWIRED incorrectly couldn't
- have anything to do with it, Right? -----Roland of Gilead----- }
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