__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Monday 23 April 2007 15:52 \__
> From: phila Wed Sep 13 08:40:37 1989
> To: celesteb; danbo; greglo; jodys; marcw; mikedr; richab
> Subject: RE: Limulator technology: spread it around?
> Date: Wed Sep 13 07:31:42 1989
>
> 'cause we're big bad microsoft and we LIKE to stomp the daylights out of
> the little guys.
>
> seriously -- we shouldn't try to crush these guys -- let them upgrade
> their products to compatible with ours. Give them the info they need.
> Even say nice things about the good ones. However, I don't want to put
> any development effort into making it easier for them.
>
> Sender: mikedr Tue Sep 12 20:29:17 1989
> To: celesteb; danbo; greglo; jodys; marcw; philba; richab
> Subject: RE: Limulator technology: spread it around?
> Date: Tue Sep 12 20:26:54 1989
>
> I disagree with Greg. Our goal is not to drive limulator vendors out of
> business. If someone besides Microsoft is able to delever great
> functionality to our users, why should we stand in the way of using it?
> Do you really want to penalize users for using Microsoft software?
>
> Sender: greglo Tue Sep 12 20:22:19 1989
> To: celesteb; danbo; greglo; jodys; marcw; mikedr; philba; richab
> Subject: RE: Limulator technology: spread it around?
> Date: Tue Sep 12 20:20:42 1989
>
> Need a policy on whether we want to allow other people to modify their
> limulator so that they will work with Win386 just as well as our own
> EMM386.SYS (i.e. let Win386 take over their open emm handles while we
> are running, to support ems using memory resident programs). Do we
> document our interface in the DDK?
>
> One could say that there is no reason that various OEM limulators or
> 386MAX should not work with us. On the other hand, maybe we want to kill
> them.
>
> My opinion right now is that there will be no reason for a person not to
> use EMM386 with Win386 3.0. Sure 386MAX has additional nifty keeno
> features, like mapping upper memory blocks, but they can't use those
> features with Win386. All the features they could use with Win386 are
> already provided by EMS386. So maybe we want to keep thinks simple and
> tell thm always use EMM386, and throw away the competitors.
>
> http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/5000/PX05055.pdf
Fascinating debates at Microsoft.. to kill or not to kill. What a company! Do
they dress in black as well?
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