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From: buck@granite.cr.bull.com (Kenneth J. Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 4.01 vs. 3.3
Message-ID: <1990Aug22.153913.3961@granite.cr.bull.com>
Date: 22 Aug 90 15:39:13 GMT
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In article <2209@cernvax.UUCP> markus@cernvax.UUCP (markus baertschi) writes:
>  So, if you don't run *very* old programs you don't need SHARE, but if
>  you want to absolutely shure you'll have to pay the price (memory).

Fine, but what's *real* the penalty for NOT using SHARE? Will the "old"
programs just fail, or is there risk of disk corruption, other_bad_things, etc.?