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- From: gnelson@megatest.com (Glenn Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Why dos5? (Maybe not as ideotic as it sounds)
- Message-ID: <C17tB6.74L@megatest.com>
- Organization: Megatest Corporation
- References: <1je09vINNhrm@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:46:46 GMT
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- From article <1je09vINNhrm@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, by bo@horus.cem.msu.EDU (Bo Peng):
- > Don't laugh. If you go back to the c: prompt alot, I understand how dos5
- > gives you more base memory. I have no problem with that. But why do people
- > use dos5 when they stay in Windows all day?
- >
- > With the 50/70 bucks, my dog could enjoy some real meaty bones. Or I could
- > give it to some "non-profit" organizations for saving a tree or two -- at
- > least I can pretend so. Or I could pay someone to beat me up until I shit in
- > my pants. It won't feel good, but it's only once.
- >
- > I mean, I tried dos5+win3.1. I got less memory and slower performance (with
- > 4M, I don't think the performance degradation is due to the decrease in
- > memory). NOTHING else.
- >
- > What's the deal? If I could afford a jumbo hard disk, I won't even
- > consider dos6!
- >
- > So enlighten me, please.
- >
- > Bo Peng
- >
- I can't resist. I was going to skip this article, but I considered the
- parenthetical phrase in the subject. Well, it IS as "ideotic (sic) as it sounds".
- What, pray tell, would you run instead? You have to run SOME DOS before Windows
- (or you could run OS/2). Since DOS 5.0 frees more base memory than DOS 4.x or
- 3.x, what would you recommend? DOS 1.0 perhaps???
-
- A little enlightenment. On my system I get about 610 K free with DOS 5.0,
- about 540K with DOS 4.01 and about 570K with DOS 3.3. Which would you choose
- to run?
-
- Glenn Nelson, Megatest, San Jose
- gnelson@megatest.com
- Phone: 408-441-3014
-