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From: heather@blia.BLI.COM (Heather Mackinnon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Breaking the 640K Barrier
Message-ID: <3715@blia.BLI.COM>
Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 21:33:34 EST
Article-I.D.: blia.3715
Posted: Tue Dec  8 21:33:34 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 18:53:39 EST
References: <164300022@uiucdcsb> <1094@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> <1189@homxb.UUCP> <1816@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Britton Lee, Los Gatos, CA
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Summary: no DOS 3.4

In article <1816@cup.portal.com>, Isaac_K_Rabinovitch@cup.portal.com writes:
> simrin@mis.ucsf.edu (Steve Simrin) writes:
> ->In article <1189@homxb.UUCP> mr@homxb.UUCP (mark) writes:
> ->>
> ->>I suspect that DOS 3.4 will fix the 640K [screwup]. (not 3.3)
> ->>
> ->
> ->I don't think so. Breaking the 640k barrier is one of the 2 big
> ->features of OS/2 (multitasking being the other). If they fix DOS, it will
> ->cut the sales of OS/2 significantly.

I talked to Microsoft in an effort to discover when the mythical DOS
3.4 will be released.  They told me that there will be no further versions
of DOS ever.  I mentioned the articles in PC Week and Microsoft said -
how shall I put this diplomatically? - that the columnist was misinformed.
That makes sense to me.  Microsoft has put all of their eggs into OS/2's
basket and they aren't about to let DOS upgrades erode the OS/2 market.

Heather Mackinnon
Britton-Lee, Inc.