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From: dcling@athena.mit.edu (Douglas C Ling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Problems with Windows/Disk Manager/1024+ cylinder hard drives
Keywords: Windows, Disk Manager, FDISK
Message-ID: <1990Jun13.195004.17455@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 90 19:50:04 GMT
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In article <1502@lectroid.sw.stratus.com>,
jmann@bigbootay.sw.stratus.com (Jim Mann) writes:
|> >Beyond that, DOS 4.x is expensive and sometimes diffi-
|> >cult to find
|> 
|> Huh?  DOS 4.x costs on the order of $100 (not very expensive at all for
|> someone who is purchasing a large hard disk, Windows applications, etc.)
|> and is available from most software houses as well as from Microsoft.
|> 
|> Jim

The real expense is in time and frustration. Imagine someone, with a
large hard disk using Disk Manager, happily brings home his/her
Windows3.0 and installs it and WHAMMO it won't work! if (s)he has not
been keeping up with this newsgroup, the only way to find out about the
incompatibility is by calling up Microsoft (toll-call!). Then the
alternatives are 

      (1) pay another $100 for DOS4.0; spend another half day backing-up
and reformating the hard disk, or
      (2) forget about Windows3.0 (if his/her place-of-purchase will
take the software back w/o restocking charge!! If not, (s)he'll have to
sell it to someone, possibly at a reduced price...)

The latter is just what I did with my Windows386....

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