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From: ODX@PSUVM.BITNET (Tim Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: EZ-DOS, MS-DOS compatible OS
Message-ID: <89219.160638ODX@PSUVM>
Date: 7 Aug 89 20:06:38 GMT
Organization: Penn State University - Center for Academic Computing
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Has anyone had experience with EZ-DOS yet?  This is a (relatively) new MS-
DOS compatible operating system by Digital Research, Inc., being marketed by
2001 Sales (and possibly others?).

Things that make this OS interesting are:
   *  A standard graphical user interface (GEM),
   *  Partitions up to 512Mb,
   *  Speed,
   *  A standard BASIC pseudo-compiler (TRUEBasic).

I have not had the opportunity to see this OS yet, but I am **very** inter-
ested in the features mentioned above.  What I am curious about, however, are
features such as:
   *  Compatibility with undocumented features (will my PD/shareware library
      suffer?)
   *  Ability to modify config on-the-fly (as EDCONFIG.SYS does, but in a
      standard way?)
   *  The quality of the TRUEBasic package (has it been grafted onto EZ-DOS,
      or does it provide good access to the GUI and OS?)
   *  Are current development tools going to work well in the new environment?
      (I am interested both in general and also in specific cases like JPI
      Modula-2, the environment I prefer.)

If anyone has had experience with EZ-DOS, please comment on it, either to the
net or directly to me.  If this topic has already been discussed, where may
I get some (or all) of the information?  If not, and there is interest, I
would be willing to summarize the information and post it to this group.

Tim Larson,
ODX@PSUVM.BITNET