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Article #3569Re: Dos upgrade from 3.09 to 4.01
From: Tom Guptill
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 01:30
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 01:30
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I really can't think of any reason to use a DOS higher than v3.3 on an XT clone. I'm assuming you don't have any high memory, so the new memory management features won't be much good to you. DOSSHELL is probably unbearably slow, and I think EDIT *will* run under DOS 3.3 assuming EDIT.COM and QBASIC.EXE are installed.) DOS 3.3 supports HD floppies and there is software available which allows you to use large hard drives without dividing them into bite-sized pieces. If you don't *need* 4.01 or 5.0 to run specific applications I'd suggest that you just upgrade to 3.3 and save memory and space. (Without high memory, DOS 5.0 uses a good deal of conventional RAM.) Can anyone think of any other reasons to upgrade on a machine this old? -- | Tom Guptill | tgpt_ltd@cc.rochester.edu (internet) | | CPU Box 277445 U of R | tgpt_ltd@uordbv (bitnet) | | Rochester NY 14627 | | | (716) 274-0156 | |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!gatech!psuvax1!rutgers!ub!galileo.cc.rochester.edu!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!tgpt_ltd From: tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: Dos upgrade from 3.09 to 4.01 Keywords: dos upgrade Message-ID: <1993Jan5.013050.26324@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Date: 5 Jan 93 01:30:50 GMT References: <szikopou.725952794@cunews> <1993Jan4.193514.22137@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl> <1993Jan5.000106.17939@dmp.csiro.au> Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: uhura.cc.rochester.edu