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From: wozniak@utkux1.utk.edu (Bryon Lape)
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Subject: Re: DOS 4.0 and IBM Model 55 SX
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Date: 20 Oct 89 19:59:29 GMT
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In article <1211@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> wozniak@utkux1.cs.utk.edu (Bryon Lape) writes:
>
>	The diferences between 3.3 and 4.0 and many.  4.0 is bugging and
>has a graphics window (ie - MS Windows without calling it that).
>
>	The 80386SX is also a joke and MCA will most likely be dumped if
>EISA ever catches on.
>
>
>-bryon-

	In light of better ralations, I would like to append the above
statements...

	DOS 4.01 is supposed to have all the bugs worked out.  But given
IBM's track record, there is still something wrong with it.  (How about
longer file names?)

	MCA just does not have the support.  Of the three companies
(Dell, Tandy, and Apricot) only two hvave MCA machines available fot the
average Joe to see (this is of course 3rd party to IBM).  The Dell is
really not shipping, but Tandy claims you can buy theirs at any Radio
Shack, but who would want it (16Mhz 386)?  And the Apricot is a
pre-production 486 costing from $8000+.

	So there you have it.  Oh, EISA supports 32 bits, MCA only 24
(data bits for both, as according to Byte.)


	That is my unbiased "opinion."


-bryon-