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From: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Have you heard of DTK clones?
Message-ID: <7491@cg-atla.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 89 12:48:52 GMT
References: <1305@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> <640010@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Reply-To: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Organization: Agfa Compugraphic Division
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In article <640010@hpcilzb.HP.COM> rog@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Roger Haaheim) writes:
>Yes, I have a DTK XT clone.  It works and does everything I have
>asked it to.  It runs MS-DOS.  The trueblue IBM dos doesn't work
>but my dealer gave me the DTK MS-DOS plus some other stuff which
>all works fine.  I don't have anything to compare it to but I'm
>satisfied with it.


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I just gotta get my two cents worth in here -- I, too, have a DTK XT clone,
(well, actually a no-name clone using a DTK XT motherboard), with the
DTK/ERSO/BIOS 2.40. I am currently using TrueBlue PC-DOS 3.30 without
difficulty. I have previously used PC-DOS 3.10, also without any
difficulty at all.

I don't know why Roger reports trouble using PC-DOS on his, unless maybe
he has an older version of the DTK BIOS.

Until recently I could say that literally everything I had ever tried to run
on it worked fine (that is, programs which were known to work on a real
IBM XT). Recently I have tried installing Gem Desktop and the Bitstream
Fontware package distributed with it. Gem Desktop goes on just fine, but
the Bitstream Fontware installation program dies a horrible death when
attempting to make fonts for Gem to use. According to the support guy I
spoke to at Digital Research, their engineers report that there are many (?)
XT clones on which it does not work, even though the manual says XT is ok.
I would consider this more of a bug in the software than in the DTK
motherboard, however, since everything else works fine. (Including
Norton Utilities, PCTols, etc., etc. ad nauseum.)

Fred