I think Windows supports my point. It is sold in France and Japan in French and Japanese versions.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Friday, June 12, 2020 12:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Messages & Codes Charles Mills wrote: >You have to understand national politics: "we won't buy this >product; the error messages are in English" [not French, >Japanese, etc.] >Even though you are of course right, "diskette in drive" is >more understandable to the average French speaker than >!! Sys01475 (a) This argument would have had more credibility if MS-DOS and its children (Windows 95, Windows 98, etc.) had sold poorly in particular countries for that reason. That's not how it worked out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
