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Re: help : which is better MSDOS 5.0 or DRDOS 6.0

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From: Michael R James
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:02
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scls_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Scoles) writes:

>Re. the shell -- Mr. Johnson probably didn't try to do anything with it (
>8-) ), 'cause you more or less can't.  He's probably got a real shell.  So
>if a bundled shell matters, IMHO, that's a strike versus DRDOS.  But the
>task switcher is quite nice -- _very_ stable!  It has a nice feature set,
>too.  And it uses XMS (the DOS task swapper doesn't). I think the task
>switcher is the best bonus, and hardly anybody mentions it.  

I agree. I like the option of using the task switcher without the shell.
Point for DRDOS.  But today I've hit a little snag.  Trying to 
run DRDOS on this #@$%! 286 and the task switcher cuts my COM1 connection
when I go to another application. DOS 5 never did this.
Anyone else had this problem?
Is there a fix for this? 

>>Jim Johnson-
>Eric Scoles			: <<insert witty, pithy comment 

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Subject: Re: help : which is better MSDOS 5.0 or DRDOS 6.0
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