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- From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: help : which is better MSDOS 5.0 or DRDOS 6.0
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- Message-ID: <Jim_Johnson.0600@abcd.Houghton.MI.US>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 08:40:59 EST
- Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch
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- I have installed MSDOS 5.0 on several machines and DRDOS 6.0 on one (mine).
- I can't give you an all inclusive - "choose this one" type of response.
- Both are significantly better than their predecessors. I would like to
- make a point though - both versions of DOS are aimmed at 386/486 machines.
- They both give you much more conventional memory if you can stuff code into
- all the nooks and crannies available to remappable memory (386/486). On a
- 286 machine or an 8086 with expanded memory, I think DRDOS 6.0 has a bit
- more flexibility for memory useage than MSDOS 5.
-
- I've heard that MSDOS 5.0 is a bit faster, but I haven't installed both
- DOSes on the same machine running the same applications, so I really can't
- say whether or not this is true.
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- DRDOS 6.0 comes with a much better set of utilities (I removed many of the
- little PD .COM files from my hard drive that I've have used for years), but
- keep in mind that BASIC in whatever form is useful for a lot of quick and
- dirty tasks and MSDOS 5.0 comes with QBasic and DRDOS has no included
- programming language. From what little I have used DRDOS's graphical
- shell, it appears to be a stripped down version of GEM - which was quite
- popular.
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- Jim Johnson-
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