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From: todd@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Todd Ogasawara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: distinguishing between MS and IBM(PC) DOS
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Date: 23 Jan 90 04:10:30 GMT
References: <5134@solo6.cs.vu.nl> <261@utrcu1.UUCP> <2638@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <1354@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: todd@uhccux.UUCP (Todd Ogasawara)
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In article <1354@maytag.waterloo.edu> dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
]In article <2638@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> kaleb@mars.UUCP (Kaleb Keithley) writes:
]>Which means that Olivetti licensed it's DOS from IBM rather than Microsoft,
]>therefore, it's really PC-DOS instead of MS-DOS.
]This raises the question:  is there any systematic difference between
]MS-DOS and PC-DOS, other than who collected the royalties and what "ver"
]prints?  
]In other words, a question to the original poster:  why would
]anyone want to distinguish between them?

Be glad to answer that question... I'm about to put some diskless
workstations (hard diskless might be more accurate, some might have
floppies) on a Novell network.  I wanted to be able to have simple way to
determine what DOS is being used on any particular workstation so that I
could point to the appropriate COMMAND.COM on the server. I.e., I want to
let anyone login in from anywhere on the LAN. This is important when people
fire up large programs that reloads COMMAND.COM on exit.

Since a person who normally works on a hard disk might sometimes move to a
diskless machine and login, I wanted everyone to have a COMSPEC pointing to
the server so workstation crashes would be reduced.

We have noted, for instance, that MS-DOS 3.3 and IBM-DOS 3.3 are in fact
different...todd
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