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Peter C Olsen (pcolsen@super.org) wrote:
: 
: I would like to praise Digital Research for their excellent software
: and service.  I've found their product easy to install and more
: powerful than MS-DOS 5.0 (which I also own and replaced).  Last night,
: three of their technicians spent more than an hour with me (over an
: 800-line at their expense) trying to trace down a hardware problem
: keeping me from running TaskMax.  (It's what happens when you mix
: no-name cards into a proprietary Zenith architecture from 1984.)
: That call alone probably ate any profits they'll make from me for many
: years.  My only complaint is with their bundled editor --- that's just
: not up to the standard set by the rest of the package.
: 
: Summary:  Good product, great service.
: 
: Peter
: 
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I own MS-DOS 5.0 and I love what it does for me.  I also tried out
DR. DOS 6.0  but I was not very impressed.  I hated the EDITOR and it
looked like a shareware thing.  But  I do believe that it has better
memory management, so you get more free conventional memory.  But
the difference isn't much significant if you have a lot of extended
memory on your system.  And I think DOS 5.0 is far easier to install
than DR DOS 6.0.  But I do appreciate Digital Research's product
support and service -- I would give them an A+ on that.  But as for
DR DOS 6.0, it is only a temporary legacy of performance, pretty
soon MS-DOS 5.0 will check up some of the features of DR DOS and
eventually you will see DR DOS 6.0 die off like an old legend of the
past.  So DR DOS won't live long - that's my theory.