kluge@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Oliver Kluge) (03/02/89)
Hi citizens of netland! This is sort of a summary of the reply I got for my article about the buggy operating system IBM still sells because I can't seriously answer all replies by individual mail. I would like to thank all writing to me ! Especially, I would like to thank Mr. Guenther Ruecker from IBM. He was the only person willing and able to help me, but his company's current policies prevented too much of that. Thanks! + Keith Petersen (w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil) sent me a patch description from his archive (written by K. Macy) that would cure the bug. + Harold Shapiro (hs0i+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote me he switched back from DOS 4.0 to 3.2 because of a bad experience with this. + Steve Ward (ward%cfa@harvard.harvard.edu) wrote about the number of the updated version Microsoft distributed, 3.30A. + Sean Patrick Gallaty (choke@m-net.UUCP) wrote that he thought 3.2 was the only version containing DRIVPARM. + R. D. Eager (rde@ukc.ac.uk) sent to me the most useful solution of the problem: He wrote I should insert three Ctrl-A (01h) in between the '=' and the parameters. ===> I T W O R K S !!! Additionally, I found out that just * O N E * Ctrl-A is actually needed. + Lee Fisher (leefi%microsof.UUCP) from Microsoft wrote I shouldn't expect Microsoft to discuss IBM's IBMBIO.COM adresses. I have to say, I * D O * expect Microsoft to do this. The first time I detected the irregularities, I contacted my dealer. Three months NOTHING happened. So I rang up IBM directly. They told me they couldn't give me any phone number of a technician familiar to such deep diggings. >>> They told me to call Microsoft, because "they wrote it". Of course, Microsoft told me to ask IBM, and so this would have continued until infinity. BTW, IS THERE ANY I B M REPRESENTATIVE, TECHNICIAN OR WHATEVER FROM THE US TO GIVE A STATEMENT??? IS THIS A GOOD MARKETING STRATEGY TO GIVE EXPERIENCED USERS NOT THE * CHANCE * TO HAVE A * B U G * CORRECTED? Yes, I see, DRIVPARM is an unsupported feature, but is that good style to sell buggy operating systems just because the bug is contained in an important, but unsupported feature??????? I'm very disappointed. In the past, IBM did not make such trouble when I wanted technical details. So long ... Oliver -- TTTU MMMMM kluge%lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de@relay.cs.net (CS-NET, ARPA) T U U M M Oliver Kluge, Parallel Computing Lab, \ unido.UUCP (UUCP) T U M M M Technical University Munich, Arcisstr. 21, 8000-Munich 2, W. Germany T UUU M M "Why stop now just when I'm hating it?" Marvin, the paranoid android