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From: dlow@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Danny Low)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 3.3 versus 4.0
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Date: 1 Dec 89 23:44:07 GMT
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>If you had a choice (which I do with Gateway), which DOS would you pick:
>3.3 or 4.0?

Depends on what size hard disk I have. 4.0 supports disks to 512MB.
3.3 does not. Partitioning can be a real drag in many situations.
So if I have a large hard disk (>32MB) I would go to 4.0 for
the large disk support. Otherwise I would go with 3.3 as it takes
up about 10K less memory.

			   Danny Low
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