Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!clarkson!grape.ecs.clarkson.edu!levericw From: levericw@cheetah.ece.clarkson.edu (Walden Leverich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 soon? Message-ID: Date: 25 Jan 91 16:20:15 GMT References: <83334@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <26492@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Sender: @grape.ecs.clarkson.edu Organization: /home/cheetah.ece/levericw/.organization Lines: 37 In-Reply-To: jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu's message of 25 Jan 91 13:59:42 GMT [stuff deleted] Brian> DOS 4.01. Anyway....DOS 4.00 was soon upgraded by Microsoft to DOS 4.01 Brian> in an attempt to kill the bugs. This was only partially effective. So, Brian> in a piece by piece fashion: Just for reference. IBM release PC-DOS ver 4.00 and it was full of bugs. MicroSoft then released MS-DOS ver 4.00 in which many of the bugs were fixed (notice the same version numbers.) IBM then released PC-DOS ver 4.01 in which the bugs were also fixed. I do not know if MS-DOS and PC-DOS version numbers are still different. [more stuff killed] Brian> Memory Overhead: The added memory of DOS 4.01 prevented many programs Brian> from even working, including Ventura Publisher and a couple of games. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I have gotten VP to work on many systems (286s) running PC-DOS ver 4.01 [and even more stuff killed] Brian> everything that DOS 4.01 was SUPPOSED to do. It has been undergoing Brian> heavy beta testing so that a fiasco like what happened last time doesn't Brian> happen again. Does anyone have a release date (even month or year) for DOS 5.0? -Walden -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Walden H. Leverich III | Inet: levericw@clutx.clarkson.edu ECE Dept. | CServ: 73237,2212 <- checked weekly Clarkson University | SnailMail: Software Solutions | PO Box 763 | Potsdam, NY 13676-0763 #include --------------------------------------------------------------------------