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
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court documents in the case of Comes v Microsoft.
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