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From: gerten@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de (Rainer Gerten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MSDOS 3.2, 3.3, or 4.0?
Message-ID: <5001@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de>
Date: 4 May 90 14:38:47 GMT
References: <2433@crash.cts.com> <1990Apr29.063454.26496@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <29149@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: gerten@uklirb.UUCP (Rainer Gerten)
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, W-Germany
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In article <29149@ut-emx.UUCP> nghiem@emx.UUCP (Alex Nghiem) writes:
>In article <1990Apr29.063454.26496@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> draper@cpsin1.uucp (Patrick J Draper) writes:
>If the file system bugs have been fixed, that's fine. DOS 4.0 should
>never have been released with those bugs in the first place. If troublesome
>installation is not a bug, then it's a design limitation (see above.)
>What you did not address is all the complaints about Windows 2.XX not
>working properly with DOS 4.XX. Did you try Windows?

Yes, I am working with Windows (286 and 386) under DOS 4.01. It's
Release 2.11 (2.03 of Win386 won't run with DOS 4).
With these Windows-Version, I had no Problems running Windows with
DOS 4.01, which were affectet from DOS 4.01, But I have some Problems
with Windows (both 286 and 386, specially 386 2.03 and 2.11),
under DOS 4.01 as under DOS 3.30. Therefore the Question is not
always "Is DOS 4 broken", there are too Problems in the applications.

Beside that, Programs not designed for upward compatibilty should
not be used in newer version of DOS. I don't aspect the Norton
Utilities 4.0 to run with DOS 4. I can't aspect to build an
engine from a car out of the fifties to an new designed car from
today. Both is no discussion of things being broken (With that,
i don't want to tell the bugs of DOS 4.00 to be not broken)


Rainer Gerten
University of Kaiserslautern
West-Germany
mail: gerten@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de