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In article <3uau3b$9...@mail.one.net>, r. n. dominick <cinn...@one.net> wrote:
>Michael Hermann (her...@akira.uni-passau.de) wrote:
>: MS will probably make them bugfixes available by other means as well, 
>: although I doubt they will make them available for free (ie FTP), given 
>: their behaviour in the past
>
>Huh? I can't think of one major bugfix/minor version-number change where 
>the patch wasn't available for free from Microsoft (let's see... DOS 6.2, 
>DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11, some version of Lan Manager...) for at least some 
>time. Hell, my sister downloaded Win3.11 from GEnie, fer crying out loud.
>

When MS released a couple of patches to MS-DOS 5.0, for a partition-size
related error, many of us were amazed.  We had NEVER seen a free bugfix
on the MS BBS before.  MS did NOT have an ftp site at the time.  THe
BBS was also one of the WORST, in terms of line quality, that I've
ever called.  I've made calls of 2,500 miles where I never had to worry
about download problems.  Calls 500 miles due West to MS repeatedly
died in the middle of downloads.
	I was so used to this behavior that after I discovered the
IBM BBS I was stunned to find CSDs going back to PC-DOS 3.xx.

Bob