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From: austin@bucsf.bu.edu (Austin Ziegler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 3.3 versus 4.0
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Date: 2 Dec 89 01:53:36 GMT
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>>>>> On 1 Dec 89 17:20:40 GMT, dougm@palomar.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Doug
>>>>> Marshall) said:

Doug> In article <48986@bbn.COM> syswerda@bbn.com (Gilbert Syswerda) writes:
>If you had a choice (which I do with Gateway), which DOS would you pick:
>3.3 or 4.0?

Doug> It probably depends more on what size hard disk you're going to use.
	Well, that is partially true.  Of either version, you are better
off with the x.x1 version.  MS-DOS 3.31 also supports hard-disks larger
than 32Mb.  Since I have recently used both 3.30 and 4.01, I will briefly tell
you what I think of both of them.

	MSDOS 3.30:  Nice for a smaller system.  It has the most features
available in the 3.30 line and takes up about 29K of diskspace
(COMMAND.COM only) and about 60K in memory (depending upon configuration).
It does not have any noticable bugs other than it will not work with hard
disks larger than 32Mb.  It comes on two disks so is about 720K on the hard
disk, counting all files.  I used this until recently.  Drawbacks which
made me change to 4.01:  I have EGA, and MSDOS 3.3x does not have any
*real* support for those machines.
	MSDOS 4.01:  COMMAND.COM is about 34K on disk, and takes up about 
70-80K in memory.  It does not have any noticable bugs (only used for two
weeks, though).  It comes on 6 disks and has a shell which is quite nice
for a non-mouse user.  Advantage: it takes advantage of my system far
better than 3.3x did.  Disadvantage that I've found:  it is huge, and my
disk space (only 30Mb on the harddisk) is limited.

	Hope this helps.

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