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- From: d2henan@dtek.chalmers.se (Andreas Henning)
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- Subject: Re: Why dos5? (Maybe not as ideotic as it sounds)
- Message-ID: <d2henan.727691643@dtek.chalmers.se>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 08:34:03 GMT
- References: <1je09vINNhrm@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <C17tB6.74L@megatest.com>
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- gnelson@megatest.com (Glenn Nelson) writes:
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- >From article <1je09vINNhrm@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, by bo@horus.cem.msu.EDU (Bo Peng):
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- >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???
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- >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?
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- If you only use Windows there is no point in spending $50-$70 on DOS 5
- just to get 70Kbyte more DOS memory. Windows doesn't need it.
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- Andreas Henning -- d2henan@dtek.chalmers.se
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