Re: DOS 4.0 versus DOS 3.3 ... so?

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From: Kaleb Keithley
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 1990 15:26

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In article <1J37g2w161w@cattie.UUCP> cattie!marks@hutch.UUCP (Mark Schaffer) writes:
>What exactly are advantages that DOS 4.0 has over DOS 3.3?  I know that
>DOS 4.0 can handle partitions larger than 32MB, but is there anything
>else?

Isn't that enough?  4.01 also includes a visual shell, *sort of* a windowing
based front end to DOS.  It also comes with SMARTDRV.SYS, which is a disk
cache.

kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov            Jet Propeller Labs
Kaleb Keithley

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Subject: Re: DOS 4.0 versus DOS 3.3 ... so?
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