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Article #8818Re: Which DOS should I use?
From: Nur Iskandar Taib
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1991 16:32
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1991 16:32
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>the ONLY reason to have 4.x is drive partitioning. It takes too much memory >and really adds very little to DOS 3.3. If you can get Compaq DOS 3.31, it >has all the joys of DOS 3.3 plus large partitions. 4dos won't help, it is Zenith DOS 3.3 Plus also has the above features, plus a lot of nonstandard Zenith stuff, eg. a Norton-like file editor/undeleter called GDI, a low-level formatter called PREP, FDISK renamed to PART, etc. I don't know how well it would work on a non-Zenith. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iskandar Taib | The only thing worse than Peach ala Internet: NTAIB@AQUA.UCS.INDIANA.EDU | Frog is Frog ala Peach Bitnet: NTAIB@IUBACS ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!bronze!silver!ntaib From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) Subject: Re: Which DOS should I use? Message-ID: <1991Apr1.163245.17757@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington References: <1991Mar28.205844.19975@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <5707@tellab5.tellabs.com> <3632@polari.UUCP> Distribution: na Date: Mon, 1 Apr 91 16:32:45 GMT Lines: 17