Re: DR DOS

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From: G. Wayne Hines
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 22:25

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In an earlier episode, "Jack Troughton" 
<jake!spam@consultron.ca> wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 11:35:46 UTC, robin <robin_v@bigpond.mapson.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >DR DOS had the edge over MS DOS.  I never found a program that
> >would not run under DR-DOS.
> 
> That didn't keep dealers from lying about the competing product,
> though.

There was one dealer in this area who sold DR or Novell DOS, and
OS/2. He suggested DR-DOS would cause no problems. The other 
dealers said "You've got to have MS-DOS for Windows to work 
properly".

gwh

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