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I have installed MSDOS 5.0 on several machines and DRDOS 6.0 on one (mine).
I can't give you an all inclusive - "choose this one" type of response. 
Both are significantly better than their predecessors.  I would like to
make a point though - both versions of DOS are aimmed at 386/486 machines. 
They both give you much more conventional memory if you can stuff code into
all the nooks and crannies available to remappable memory (386/486).  On a
286 machine or an 8086 with expanded memory, I think DRDOS 6.0 has a bit
more flexibility for memory useage than MSDOS 5.

I've heard that MSDOS 5.0 is a bit faster, but I haven't installed both
DOSes on the same machine running the same applications, so I really can't
say whether or not this is true.

DRDOS 6.0 comes with a much better set of utilities (I removed many of the
little PD .COM files from my hard drive that I've have used for years), but
keep in mind that BASIC in whatever form is useful for a lot of quick and
dirty tasks and MSDOS 5.0 comes with QBasic and DRDOS has no included
programming language.  From what little I have used DRDOS's graphical
shell, it appears to be a stripped down version of GEM - which was quite
popular.

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