NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/comp/os/msdos/misc/6833

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From: [e-mail] (Tom Guptill)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Dos upgrade from 3.09 to 4.01
Keywords: dos upgrade
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Date: 5 Jan 93 01:30:50 GMT
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    I really can't think of any reason to use a DOS higher than v3.3 on
an XT clone.  I'm assuming you don't have any high memory, so the new memory
management features won't be much good to you.  DOSSHELL is probably
unbearably slow, and I think EDIT *will* run under DOS 3.3 assuming EDIT.COM
and QBASIC.EXE are installed.) DOS 3.3 supports HD floppies and there is
software available which allows you to use large hard drives without
dividing them into bite-sized pieces.  If you don't *need* 4.01 or 5.0 to
run specific applications I'd suggest that you just upgrade to 3.3 and save
memory and space.  (Without high memory, DOS 5.0 uses a good deal of
conventional RAM.) Can anyone think of any other reasons to upgrade on a
machine this old?


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