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From: gerten@uklirb.UUCP (Rainer Gerten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 3.3 versus 4.0
Summary: Pick DOS 4.0
Message-ID: <7607@uklirb.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 89 09:51:54 GMT
References: <48986@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: gerten@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de (Rainer Gerten)
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, W-Germany
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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?

I took DOS 4.0, after working for several years with DOS 3.x.

Advantages:
- big partitions (but pay attention with some utilities !)
- ems usage
- dosshell
- some improven commands

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