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In article <1993Jan5.013050.26324@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill) writes:
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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?

If the machine has a HD > 32 megs, then 4.01 is a nice thing to have for its
support for large partitions.  Also, it may be difficult to impossible to get a
legal copy of any DOS version < 5.0 these days.

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