Re: Dos upgrade from 3.09 to 4.01

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From: Lachlan Cranswick
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 00:01

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leo@rulhp2.leidenuniv.nl (L. Mekenkamp) writes:


>>My girlfriend owns a dinsosaur of an IBM compatible.  She purchased it
>>in 1987 and has lost the manual for it.  I opened it up to install a
>>modem and it does have an Intel 8088 chip.  So we are definatley
>>talking XT compat.

>Not neccecarily; you just *might* have a real indestructible IMB-PC.

>>I wanted to uprgrade the DOS she's running to 4.01 from 3.09 but
>[...]
>Why not try dos3.3x instead?

I've upgraded a couple of work XTs from 2.1 or 3.3 to DOS 5.0.

It is worth it just for the new DOS 5.0 editor and DOS 5.0
dosshell.  DOS 4 is a dog of a DOS, nasty dosshell and
leaves less application memory than DOS 3.3 or 5.0.

Lachlan 

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From: lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick)
Subject: Re: Dos upgrade from 3.09 to 4.01
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