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Article #8595re: MS-DOS vs PC-DOS
From: Dan Kegel
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1986 14:07
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1986 14:07
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MS-DOS and PC-DOS may also differ slightly internally.
I (fuzzily) recall two cases:
1. In DOS 2.?, the EXEC function call was located in the transient portion of
COMMAND.COM in PC-DOS, but in the resident part of MS-DOS.
2. The MS-DOS programmer's reference manual mentions that the device driver
loader of PC-DOS can only handle .bin style files, but the MS-DOS version
can also handle .exe style files (!).
It isn't obvious why these differences exist (if they do); maybe Microsoft
has to deliver to IBM so far in advance that, by the time IBM releases
its version of DOS, Microsoft has already added a few more features.
- Dan Kegel
seismo!rochester!srs!dan
Disclaimer: I'm actually still asleep; the opinions expressed above are
not those of my conscious mind.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!ur-tut!ur-cvsvax!srs!dan From: dan@srs.UUCP (Dan Kegel) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: re: MS-DOS vs PC-DOS Message-ID: <207@srs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Oct-86 09:07:29 EST Article-I.D.: srs.207 Posted: Mon Oct 27 09:07:29 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 29-Oct-86 21:55:28 EST Distribution: net Organization: S.R. Systems, Rochester NY Lines: 17