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From: t-gregr@microsoft.UUCP (Greg Reddick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Echo Off!   Solution!
Message-ID: <1338@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 88 01:50:12 GMT
References: <2110@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <1256@nbires.nbi.com> <10063@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com> <10885@ut-sally.UUCP>
Reply-To: t-gregr@forward.UUCP (Greg Reddick)
Organization: Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
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In article <10885@ut-sally.UUCP> nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:
>In article <10063@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com>, davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
>> Why flame Microsoft. When users requested a feature they provided it. 
>
>No, they really didn't.  They made a fundamental design blunder in the first
>place -- "echo off" should have been the default condition.  There is no
>disadvange whatsoever: you could use "echo on" if you WANTED the stupid
>thing to echo.  This blunder was evident in DOS 2.0.  People complained.

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>
>When Microsoft responds to individual user's complaints will be the day
>the earth stands still.
>
>-- 
>Ed Nather

Note that anything that I say about Microsoft is my own personal understanding
and as far as I know contains no inside information. (disclaimer)

Sorry Ed, but starting with MS-DOS 3.3, you can't lay the problem on
Microsoft any more.  DOS 3.3 is created by IBM and licensed back to
Microsoft.  Course your comments about previous versions may (or may not)
be valid, I'M not going to say! :-)

Greg Reddick
Microsoft

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I may sound like I know what I'm talking about, but I've merely got you
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