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From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Anybody used 4DOS version 2.21
Message-ID: <934@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 29 Oct 89 15:51:47 GMT
References: <5706@shlump.nac.dec.com> <933@sdrc.UUCP> <2853@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Organization: SDRC, Cincinnati
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In article <2853@hydra.gatech.EDU>, bb16@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Bostater) writes:
> In article <933@sdrc.UUCP>, I wrote:
> > Yes, 2.21 is the latest version.  I used it for less that a day....
>        ^^^^
>           |-- (turn nit-pick mode on)
> 
> Sorry, but I just downloaded 4dos22a.zip from grape.ecs.clarkson.edu on 
> 10-26-89.

Say what?!?  I just got 2.21 direct from J.P. Software (the
author/vendor).  If there's a more recent version, it came out
less than 9 days ago, which I sincerely doubt.

> The only problem
> I've seen with it is that it takes more memory than command.com if you don't
> have EMS. 

Not if you let it swap to disk, it isn't.
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