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From: mikey@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Michael GALLOP)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 4.01 vs. 3.3
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Date: 18 Aug 90 15:01:43 GMT
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In article <38144@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) writes:
>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?
	No, It isn't true anymore-- As far as far as I've seen. As usual it was
released late and pushed out the door (Can anyone release software on 
time ? :-)). So there was bugs....The same reason I haven't bought Windows
3.0 yet- Now however it is stabilized... The original was, in fact 4.0 
and a major bug fix was 4.01

>
>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?
That is a big factor (I use a Wren V so...) the memory management for
some strange reason is better... The memory mapping features are nice.
I get fewer malloc errors with 4.01 then 3.30A.
One caveat though. If you use an earlier version (like last year!) of 
SCO/Xenix your DOS partition is not recognized... I had a hell of a time
with that one...


>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"?
Oh hell no. I orginally ran 4.00 on a 286-10 with a st251-1 and have no 
problems. When I upgraded to a 386-33 with a Wren V there were no 
problems from DOS. ---found out a few things about the AST VGA plus.


These are just inane ramblings....There is a lot of white noise on the
net recently, so I'm adding to it :-)





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