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In article <8502@ur-cc.UUCP> ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Takahashi)
writes:

   I've heard of Dr-DOS, but never actually seen anybody run it. What are the
   "few differences?" Is it better/faster/smaller than MS-DOS?

I've never attempted to find any difference from a programmer's POV 
for DR-DOS 4.0, but I was pleased with it both as a programmer and
as a user.  The command interpreter lies somewhere between COMMAND.COM
and 4DOS. I much prefer 4DOS, though.  The only problem I ever had with it
concerned disk swapping with Turbo C++ which I why I switched to MSDOS.
Since DR-DOS allows 512MB partitions if you have the space, it's disk
structure is inherently non-standard (or at least, not what 3.x uses.
I dont know about DOS 4.x, since I dont have it).  This gave TC++ 
some problems which caused it to lock up when trying to shell to disk.
However, many programs could function quite well with it. PC Tools 5.5
did a very good job with it, even the disk optimizer.  

Some of its other interesting features include: password protection
of files and subdirs, online DOS help, comes with the GEM environment,
inludes LIM4.0 drivers, command line editing and history (up to 4K buffer),
full screen editor comes standard (its not much but its better than nothing!), 
and, if you are a systems designer, it can operate from ROM.