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From: phys169@canterbury.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 3.3 or 4.01?
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.153121.9761@canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: 13 Nov 90 02:31:19 GMT
References: <71077@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: University of Canterbury
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In article <71077@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, beckman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Peter Beckman) writes:
> I'm building a 386 system.  Do I want to buy MS-DOS 3.3 or 4.01?

It depends what you need to do. If you want something better than 3.3 then look
beyond DOS 4.

DOS 5 is by far the best choice for a 386, since you'll probably want to use the
extra memory. I use Digital Research DOS 5.0, and its very good (not just able
to use large disks and extended memory, but there's a lot of "nice touches" -
it feels like a polished product). MSDOS 5.0 also sounds good, but I haven't
tried it yet. 

Mark Aitchison, Physics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.