Xref: utzoo comp.os.msdos.misc:130 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:902 Path: utzoo!dciem!nttor!contact!micasa!lupic From: lupic@micasa.UUCP (Jack Lupic) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: MS-DOS 4.01 vs. 3.3 Message-ID: Date: 18 Aug 90 14:17:25 GMT References: <38144@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Reply-To: torag!micasa!lupic Distribution: na Lines: 35 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? > > 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 have been using Phoenix MS DOS 4.01 (essentially the same as Microsoft MS DOS 4.01) for a year now and it works great.The 99.9% of the bugs have been fixed in this version of Dec 89. MS/PC DOS 4.0 had many problems but that is now history. You don't really get much more with 4.01 except to be able to use single partition larger than 33Megs.Stick with MS DOS 3.3. Cheers, Jack Lupic Scarborough,Ont.,CAN. Internet: lupic%micasa@torag.UUCP OR lupic%micasa@contact.UUCP UUCP: !torag!micasa!lupic OR !contact!micasa!lupic = "The three most dangerous things in the world are: a programmer with a = = soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with = = an idea."