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Article #11261IBM vs. MS DOS 5 (was Re: Why PC DOS 5.0 = $100 & MS 5.0 = $40)
From: Nina Yuan
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 22:26
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 22:26
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In article <8578@awdprime.UUCP> woan@cactus.org writes: >Egghead sells the IBM PCDOS upgrade version for the same price as the >MSDOS version. The higher price is for the licensed IBM PCDOS, >assuming that you didn't have an earlier version/license to upgrade >from. I don't think that MS has a non upgrade version of 5.0 yet. OK, I guess the obvious question is: what's the difference between PC-DOS 5.0 and MS-DOS 5.0? Is there a difference? In previous versions, the only difference I can recall is BASICA vs. GW-BASIC, which shouldn't matter now that Microsoft is including a QuickBasic complier. Any comments? (btw, I have an IBM AT with PC-DOS 3.1). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nina H. Yuan Harvard College PANIX -- Public Access Unix of NY yuan1@husc9.harvard.edu nina@panix.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!eli.cs.yale.edu!cmcl2!panix!nina From: nina@panix.uucp (Nina Yuan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: IBM vs. MS DOS 5 (was Re: Why PC DOS 5.0 = $100 & MS 5.0 = $40) Message-ID: <1991Jun19.222610.21158@panix.uucp> Date: 19 Jun 91 22:26:10 GMT References: <1991Jun18.011419.5625@socrates.umd.edu> <8578@awdprime.UUCP> Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY Lines: 18