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From: betsey@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth Fike)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 3.3 or 4.01?
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.032141.23893@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 19 Nov 90 03:21:41 GMT
References: <71077@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <4260@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
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In article <4260@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> hrbaan@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Hayo Baan) writes:
>In <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?
>->Thanks for your help.  -Pete
>->
>->beckman@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
>

>You'll probably want the 4.01 for the extra features such as :
>- > 32MEG partitions,

This can be done with Compaq Dos 3.3....which allows for
unlimited size partitions (I have my hard drive set up as one 65
meg partition...inefficient, but it works).
CompaqDOS is, in general, nicer than MS-DOS...in my opinion.
However, I do not like Microsoft in general, so keep that in
mind.  




			Betsey ---<---<-@
                            
			     G(TB)^2