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From: jc7o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joo C. Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.dcom.lans.novell,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 soon?
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Date: 23 Jan 91 17:47:45 GMT
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	From what I've heard, Dos 5.0 will be able to convert extended memory
into high memory using Upper Memory Blocks (UMBs). This will allow you
to load drivers and other dos files into High Memory. Dos 5.0 also uses
a considerably less amount of memory from the base 640k. The Himem.sys
in D0s 5.0 will convert all the extended memory to expanded memory. This
himem.sys is the same version as the one that comes with Windows 3.0. 
	Dos 5.0 also comes with a revised Dosshell. Not necessarily better than
the Dosshell that comnes with Dos 4.0. But the File Manager in the
Dosshell in Dos 5.0, I think, is better than the file manager in Dos
4.0. 
	A friend of mine mentioned that he liked Dos 3.3 better than Dos 4.0
because it took up less memory. Well, Dos 5.0 will probably give you the
power of Dos 4.0 without sacrificing the small size of Dos 3.3.

					
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