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- From: mrjg8679@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael R James)
- Subject: Re: help : which is better MSDOS 5.0 or DRDOS 6.0
- References: <Jim_Johnson.0600@abcd.Houghton.MI.US> <1992Jul29.161508.10404@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:02:11 GMT
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- scls_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Scoles) writes:
-
- >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 agree. I like the option of using the task switcher without the shell.
- Point for DRDOS. But today I've hit a little snag. Trying to
- run DRDOS on this #@$%! 286 and the task switcher cuts my COM1 connection
- when I go to another application. DOS 5 never did this.
- Anyone else had this problem?
- Is there a fix for this?
-
- >>Jim Johnson-
- >Eric Scoles : <<insert witty, pithy comment
-
- --
- Michael James mrjg8679@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
-
- barf [ba:rf] 2. "He suggested using FORTRAN, and everybody barfed."
- - From The Shogakukan DICTIONARY OF NEW ENGLISH (Second edition)
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