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- From: scls_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Scoles)
- Subject: Re: help : which is better MSDOS 5.0 or DRDOS 6.0
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.161508.10404@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
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- References: <Jim_Johnson.0600@abcd.Houghton.MI.US>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 16:15:08 GMT
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- In <Jim_Johnson.0600@abcd.Houghton.MI.US> Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US
- (Jim Johnson) writes:
- >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'll just comment that my personal opinion is the opposite -- for most 286s,
- DRDOS is not as "good" -- you can only use UMBs if you have LEAP or NEAT
- chipsets, and you can't load that super disk cache high without EMS.
-
- >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.
-
- For some reason, the DRDOS update seems to boot a _lot_ faster than the
- fiels it replaces.
-
- >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.
-
- Re. the shell -- Mr. Johnson probably didn't try to do anything with it (
- 8-) ), 'cause you more or less can't. He's probably got a real shell. So
- if a bundled shell matters, IMHO, that's a strike versus DRDOS. But the
- task switcher is quite nice -- _very_ stable! It has a nice feature set,
- too. And it uses XMS (the DOS task swapper doesn't). I think the task
- switcher is the best bonus, and hardly anybody mentions it. I do feel the
- lack of a BASIC from time to time, though.
-
- >-- Via DLG Pro v0.995
-
- >Jim Johnson-
- >*** Remember, they're only tools - Not a way of life! ***
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- Eric Scoles : <<insert witty, pithy comment
- scls_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu : here >>
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