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- From: lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick)
- Subject: Re: Dos upgrade from 3.09 to 4.01
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.000106.17939@dmp.csiro.au>
- Keywords: dos upgrade
- Organization: CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
- References: <szikopou.725952794@cunews> <1993Jan4.193514.22137@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 00:01:06 GMT
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- leo@rulhp2.leidenuniv.nl (L. Mekenkamp) writes:
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- >>My girlfriend owns a dinsosaur of an IBM compatible. She purchased it
- >>in 1987 and has lost the manual for it. I opened it up to install a
- >>modem and it does have an Intel 8088 chip. So we are definatley
- >>talking XT compat.
-
- >Not neccecarily; you just *might* have a real indestructible IMB-PC.
-
- >>I wanted to uprgrade the DOS she's running to 4.01 from 3.09 but
- >[...]
- >Why not try dos3.3x instead?
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- I've upgraded a couple of work XTs from 2.1 or 3.3 to DOS 5.0.
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- It is worth it just for the new DOS 5.0 editor and DOS 5.0
- dosshell. DOS 4 is a dog of a DOS, nasty dosshell and
- leaves less application memory than DOS 3.3 or 5.0.
-
- Lachlan
-
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