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Article #8916Re: MSDOS 5.0
From: Good writers re-write -- not wri...
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1991 13:08
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1991 13:08
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In article <9ueTZ1w163w@mimas.UUCP>, vcl@mimas.UUCP (Victor C. Limary) writes: > Where are you people getting MS-DOS 5.0 from? Is it only available to > test users, or is MS really shipping? And how much better is it than me > using MS-DOS 3.3, QEMM-386, and 4DOS? (other than the drive partitioning > of course). Is it really worth the ~$100 to upgrade? Any > incompatibility problems, big improvements, etc? > > _______ > / \ > | O O | Victor Limary > <| < |> mimas!vcl@bbx.basis.com > | _____ | > \ U / > "-----" I saw an ad for DOS 5, but it have a price. Can someone sum up the improvements between DOS 3.3 and 5? Is DOS 5 going to have the same compatibility problems as DOS 4? -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Santanu Sircar BITNET: ssircar@umaecs.bitnet | | University of Massachusetts/Amherst INTERNET: ssircar@ecs.umass.edu | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!crackers!m2c!umvlsi!umaecs!ssircar From: ssircar@ecs.umass.edu (Good writers re-write -- not write!) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: MSDOS 5.0 Message-ID: <13056.27f9d3c9@ecs.umass.edu> Date: 3 Apr 91 13:08:25 GMT References: <9ueTZ1w163w@mimas.UUCP> Lines: 22