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- From: bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross)
- Subject: Re: Did microsoft really write an OS/2 "Terminator" crash prog?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.172609.17583@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Brock University
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- References: <1992Dec29.052115.27441@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:26:09 GMT
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- shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr) writes:
- : In article <Bzs05v.6ME@unx.sas.com> sasghw@pica.unx.sas.com (Greg Wust) writes:
- : }
- : }In article <gershon.725175162@husc.harvard.edu>, gershon@husc11.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon) writes:
- : }|> [A rumor in a recent PC mag: Microsoft put together an OS/2 terminator].
- :
- : }YES. It was either Comdex last Fall or Spring. MS went into the IBM
- : }booth where OS/2 was up and running and began running their little
- : }crash program on every machine they were allowed to walk up to. And,
- :
- : Hmmm... I heard that they would just delete CONFIG.SYS and hit Ctl-Alt-Del.
- : That's devastating enough.
-
- Why doesn't OS/2 (and DOS for that matter) use default configuration
- settings when the config.sys file is missing or is corrupted? It is
- pretty crude and unfriendly to have the system freeze as is currently the case.
- Hell, one pretty well has to reinstall DOS when a primary DOS partition screws
- up due to a buggy config file, which is unforgivable.
-
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