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From: pochron@gumby.cs.wisc.edu (David Pochron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Indus GT
Summary: Indus DOS (OSS DOSXL)
Keywords: OSS DOSXL
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Date: 22 Nov 89 20:38:47 GMT
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In article <22401@gryphon.COM> arthur@pnet02.gryphon.com (Arthur L. Rubin) writes:
>and 1050 mode (1023 128 byte sectors).  When shipped from the "manufacturer",
>it has it's own DOS, which is not very good -- it's LARGE and not much better
>than DOS 2.5.

I disagree completely!  DOSXL is a hundred times better than DOS 2.5 and
compares favorably to SpartaDOS.  It doesn't take too much more memory, and
has a resident command line interface, which is always nice.  It is 100% DOS
2.0 compatable and has an optional menu driven interface if so desired.
(It also can be made resident...uses memory though - perhaps this is why you
thought it used a lot of memory?)

From the point of view of an Atari 800 user, this DOS is a real godsend; I
suppose if you have an XL or XE, SpartaDOS would probably make much more sense
though...


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