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In article <1992Oct27.174247.11260@cs.uwp.edu> yusuf@cs.uwp.edu (Muhammad Yusuf) writes:
>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.

Ya' know, I'll give you that EDITOR isn't too good, but there's no
excuse not to get a better one that's shareware, espescially if
you have an internet account, which we do.  If you don't know of
a better one, I suggest VDE or QEDIT.

>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.

I agree with you, but EVERYONE (regardless of DOS brand) should use
a "real" memory manager like QEMM or 386Max.  OK, if you don't have
a '386, that'll be a problem, but 386sx seems to be the min these days.

>And I think DOS 5.0 is far easier to install then DR DOS 6.0

Specifically???

>DR DOS 6.0 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.

True enough, DR DOS 6.0 will be replaced with Novell DOS 7.0 (maybe
they'll keep the DR moniker, who knows), and Microsoft will still
be chasing their asses down because they've been blown off by
a superior product.

I predict more DR DOS users in the next few years because Novell
is starting to package DR DOS with NetWare.  There has also been
rumor that DR is working on UnixLite for '386 that will multitask
DOS and Windows API programs as well as X -- all in 32 bit protected
mode, of course.

These are just rumors, though...

Jim

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