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Michael Carmack (mcar...@freenet.columbus.oh.us) wrote:
: Jeremy Bee (b...@sfu.ca) wrote:
: : You have no idea do you?

: Now you're getting personal.  As if you're posts weren't annoying enough,
: now they're pissing me off.

: I know all about this.  I know a heck of a lot about DOS and programming
: in general.  (I sort of work in the business, and by the business, I do
: mean the industry.)  Sure, anyone can go in and hack the string to "OS/2
: sucks", but what was there originally is what the manufacturer titled the
: product.  And they named is MS-DOS 7.  Now, you may not think that this is
: a version of MS-DOS, but Microsoft certainly does.  And when it comes to
: their products, their opinion on what it should be named counts just a wee
: bit more than yours.

: : Also, if you simply type "ver" at the prompt in Win95, you won't get "Dos-7.0" 
: : but "Win95".  

: Ours says "MS-DOS 7.0".  Go figure.

Interesting thought:  Has anyone tried to make Win95 run on top of a 
different version of DOS (DR-DOS or whatever)?  If one could, a lot of 
this stupid posturing would cease...

Just a thought,
bj

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