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- From: steveg@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Steve Gabrilowitz)
- Subject: Re: Dos upgrade from 3.09 to 4.01
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.181811.23575@iplmail.orl.mmc.com>
- Keywords: dos upgrade
- Sender: steveg@iplmail (Steve Gabrilowitz)
- Organization: Martin Marietta
- References: <szikopou.725952794@cunews> <1993Jan4.193514.22137@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl> <1993Jan5.000106.17939@dmp.csiro.au> <1993Jan5.013050.26324@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:18:11 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.013050.26324@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill) writes:
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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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- If the machine has a HD > 32 megs, then 4.01 is a nice thing to have for its
- support for large partitions. Also, it may be difficult to impossible to get a
- legal copy of any DOS version < 5.0 these days.
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