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From: lance@helios.ucsc.edu (Lance Bresee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need input for future DOS release
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Date: 28 Mar 90 17:50:51 GMT
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In article <1640088@hpspcoi.HP.COM> dlow@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Danny Low) writes:
>Writing as a user, what I most want is make the resident portion of
>MSDOS SMALLER! I installed 4.01 and lost 32K of RAM! This was a duplicate
>of my existing 3.3 configuration with none of the 
>selectable extra features of 4.01. Half the programs

It would REALLY be nice to be able to load DOS into other memory
locations, like the D and E pages, or better yet, to the upper
half of the F page, so that you could put it in an EPROM and forget
about it entirely.

I'd also like to see a stripped down version with all utilities but
the file handling being disk based, so you could replace them singly
without having to load a shell and lose EVEN MORE MEMORY!!!!!

lance