Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 09:51:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Gene Buckle <geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net>
To: Paul Dixon <p DOT dixon AT ic DOT ac DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: OpenDOS / M$
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> >I looked on the Caldera homepage, and found an article about their suit
> >against Microsoft.  It stated that some MS products (such as Windows)
> >would print bogus error messages if something other than DOS were
> >detected, for the sole purpose of forcing people to use MS products. 

> The funniest instance I ever saw was trying to run M$ programmers workbench
> (the C6 / F5 version) on an M$ NT box - the WorkBench put up a message about
> 'this product only works on Microsoft OSses' !

Now that's _funny_!  Even more amusing is the fact that none of the
programmers at microsoft would use the programmer's workbench because it
was such a kluge...

g.