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From: hrbaan@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Hayo Baan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: PC-DOS vs. MS-DOS
Message-ID: <4072@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 18 Oct 90 14:34:22 GMT
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In <90290.111217ESR@SLACVM.BITNET> ESR@SLACVM.BITNET (Ed Russell) writes:

> [deleted stuff]
>Along with whoever made the original request, I am also interested in the
>actual differences between PC- and MS-DOS 3.3.  Are there things in PC-DOS
>that may not work properly on clones or is simply a copyright/distribution
>question?

There is at least one difference in PC- and MS-DOS, and that is that PC-DOS
does not support changing the drive parameters with 'drivparm' (this is 
painfull if you try to install a 720kb drive in your IBM-XT as B:).

Another difference (only for 4.0?) is that PC (=IBM) dos insists on having the
OEM of yer harddisk set to IBM!

Greetings,
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