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- From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
- Subject: Re: Why DOS 5.0 for Windows 3.1 ???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.175049.1691@rei.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 17:50:49 GMT
- References: <80082@bcsaic.boeing.com>
- Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.
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- milan@bcsaic.boeing.com (Milan Richter) writes:
-
- >I am presently running Windows 3.1 with DOS 4.01. Is it worth it to upgrade
- >to DOS 5.0? What specifically do I gain?
-
- DOS 5 has many advantages. It does not require SHARE.EXE for large
- media hard drives. It takes less memory than DOS 4, even if you don't
- load it high. If you do load it high, it takes phenomenally less memory
- than DOS 4. DOS 5 supports upper memory blocks, which Windows will use.
- Under a DOS 5 shell from Windows 3.1 you can have as much as 600K free,
- with the proper setup.
-
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