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- From: hjh@goose.dsto.gov.au (Howard Harvey)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: Rumor about MS/DOS ver 6.0
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.104428.164532@dstos3.dsto.gov.au>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 16:44:27 GMT
- References: <OA92-901-203_000C5F66@piraya.bad.se> <id78880@pro-haven.cts.com>
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- blackmane@pro-haven.cts.com (Ed Blackman) writes:
-
- >In <OA92-901-203_000C5F66@piraya.bad.se>
- >Jan-Inge_Flucht@f203.n901.z92.badnet.bad.se (Jan-Inge Flucht) writes:
-
- >%
- >% is going around. Is there anyoune who knows if there are a beta-
- >% verson coming up ??
- >%
- >From what I've read on the FidoNet OS2 echo, and comp.os.os2.misc, MS DOS
- >6.0 won't make any significant changes to the DOS. It will only package
- >some add-ons like Stacker, etc.
-
- >If that's the case, it's hardly worth a whole new version number. But that
- >won't stop uSoft.
-
- >Ed
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- >ProLine: blackmane@pro-haven
- >Internet: blackmane@pro-haven.cts.com
- >UUCP: crash!pro-haven!blackmane
-
- How else can uSoft hope to stem the rising tide of DRDOS 6.0?
-
- Australian Personal Computer says "... MS-DOS 6.0 will instead only include
- anti-virus software, a backup program, a disk defragmentor, memory management
- enhancements, an enhanced undelete facility and disk compression."
- Seems I read all this in my current OS manual!
-
- Howie
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