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From: Outsider <nonvalid_email AT yahoo DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: c|net: Microsoft has officially killed MS-DOS.
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 05:18:13 +0200
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Thomas Overgaard wrote:
> 
> Outsider Wrote:
> >
> > Check this out.
> >
> > Here is a search page for Microsoft product support:
> > http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp
> >
> > Windows 3.x users are EXCLUDED access to this page!
> > Windows 4.x users are ALLOWED access to this page!
> >
> > When I try to access the page using Windows 3.11, I get fowarded
> > to this page instead:
> > http://search.support.microsoft.com/support/misc/unsupported.asp
> >
> > Can this be legal to deny this page (support) to Windows 3.x users
> > while providing it for Windows 4.x (a.k.a. 95/98) users?
> >
> Strange, I just tried using Netscape 4.7 and Mozilla 14 (Netscape 5)
> both linux versions without any problems.
> 
> --

Exactly my point. You did NOT use 16-bit Windows. Try with Windows 3.x
and you will get the same result I get.

-- 
Outsider
MS-DOS 6.22, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Netscape Navigator 4.08
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
-- George Bernard Shaw

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