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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 11:23:34 EST
- Reply-To: Michael Davis <75046.1627@COMPUSERVE.COM>
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- From: Michael Davis <75046.1627@COMPUSERVE.COM>
- Subject: Re: MS-DOS 5.0 and Expanded Memory
- Comments: To: SAS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- CONTENT: Response to Question about MS-DOS 5.0, Expanded Memory
- SUMMARY: Stay Put! (until hardware upgrade)
- REL/PLTF: 6.04/MS-DOS
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- Jeff Davis (no relation to me) <NY921603@PACEVM.BITNET> asks about
- what he would get out of upgrading from MS-DOS 3.3 to MS-DOS 5.0
- on a personal computer with a Intel 80286 microprocessor.
-
- Jeff, you would get:
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- - MS-DOS Shell
- - UNFORMAT and UNDELETE commands
- - online help
- - full screen editor
- - ability to create disk partitions greater than 32MB
- - ability to search for files through multiple levels of directories
- - ability to recall and edit previous commands
- - QBASIC, an improved BASIC programming environment
-
- MS-DOS 5.0 also gives you the ability to load MS-DOS and device drivers
- in high memory, freeing conventional memory for programs that need it,
- such as SAS. You need extended, not expanded memory, to use this feature.
-
- You also asked about expanded memory under release 6.04. I don't
- know the theorectical limit but there is very little benefit to
- going beyond 2MB of expanded memory for this release.
-
- If I were you, I would not invest any more money on this computer
- system or purchase the MS-DOS upgrade. Sooner or later, the
- 6.04 release will be "orphaned" and you will have to choose to run
- SAS under Windows, OS/2 or some other platform. At that point, you
- will have to get a new machine and the operating system will be part
- of the deal.
-
- Perhaps as hardware prices continue to drop, the powers that be will
- agree to let you acquire a more powerful system. Good luck!
-
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