Xref: utzoo comp.os.msdos.misc:126 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:873 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucla-cs!wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu From: wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: MS-DOS 4.01 vs. 3.3 Message-ID: <38144@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 17 Aug 90 19:34:36 GMT Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Organization: UCLA CS Department, Los Angeles Lines: 23 Should I be wary of MS-DOS 4.01? When 4.01 (or maybe it was the original 4.0, I don't remember) first came out, I recall hearing various reports that it was flaky, and that one would be better off sticking with 3.3 (or the maintenance release, 3.30A, which fixed the DRIVPARM parsing bug and a few other things). Is this still true? Or is 4.01 considered stable and OK to use now? As far as I am currently aware, the only real reason one might prefer 4.01 over 3.3 is that 4.01 can use a disk larger than 32 meg without having to partition it. Are there any other reasons? I am currently running 3.30A on an 8-MHz 286 with two 32-meg disks, so I see no reason to change to 4.01 right now. I'm thinking more in terms of when I upgrade to newer, faster hardware sometime down the road; if a vendor offers me a package deal with 4.01, should I say "no, thanks, I'd rather have 3.3"? -- -- Rich Wales // UCLA Computer Science Department 3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, CA 90024-1596 // +1 (213) 825-5683 "You must not drink the tea. It is deadly to humans."