Re: Rumor about MS/DOS ver 6.0

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From: Howard Harvey
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:44

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blackmane@pro-haven.cts.com (Ed Blackman) writes:

>In <OA92-901-203_000C5F66@piraya.bad.se>
>Jan-Inge_Flucht@f203.n901.z92.badnet.bad.se (Jan-Inge Flucht) writes:

>% 
>% is going around. Is there anyoune who knows if there are a beta- 
>% verson coming up ?? 
>% 
>From what I've read on the FidoNet OS2 echo, and comp.os.os2.misc, MS DOS
>6.0 won't make any significant changes to the DOS.  It will only package
>some add-ons like Stacker, etc.

>If that's the case, it's hardly worth a whole new version number.  But that
>won't stop uSoft.

>Ed

>ProLine:  blackmane@pro-haven
>Internet: blackmane@pro-haven.cts.com
>UUCP:     crash!pro-haven!blackmane

How else can uSoft hope to stem the rising tide of DRDOS 6.0?

Australian Personal Computer says "... MS-DOS 6.0 will instead only include 
anti-virus software, a backup program, a disk defragmentor, memory management 
enhancements, an enhanced undelete facility and disk compression."  
Seems I read all this in my current OS manual!

Howie

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From: hjh@goose.dsto.gov.au (Howard Harvey)
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Subject: Re: Rumor about MS/DOS ver 6.0
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Date: 15 Sep 92 16:44:27 GMT
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