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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 3.3 versus 4.0
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Date: 5 Dec 89 07:34:36 GMT
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dlow@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Danny Low) writes:

<>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.

This is not universally true. Compaq MS-DOS 3.31 works quite well on
clones and also supports large paritions.
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