Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!usc!samsung!rex!uflorida!reef.cis.ufl.edu!jdb From: jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 soon? Message-ID: <26498@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Date: 25 Jan 91 21:53:52 GMT References: <83334@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <26492@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Organization: UF CIS Dept. Lines: 33 In article levericw@cheetah.ece.clarkson.edu (Walden Leverich) writes: >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. Well, all the copies of MS-DOS I have at work are labeled Microsoft MS-DOS 4.01 so I believe that the version numbers are now coinciding. >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 My mistake, I suppose. When I worked at a law school installing their DTP systems we installed DOS 4.01 and VP 2.0 and it didn't work. Period. We did finally get it to work by booting off of a clean 4.01 system diskette with NOTHING in config.sys or autoexec.bat >Does anyone have a release date (even month or year) for DOS 5.0? From what PC WEEK and INFOWORLD have been stating, originally DOS 5.0 was scheduled for release in 1st quarter 1991 (i.e. right now). However, MS has stated not to expect earlier than the 2nd quarter. It seems from all the beta testers that it is real solid though. Another note: I heard that Windows 3.1 (May 22 tentative release date) will REQUIRE DOS 5.0 and that DOS upgrades will be allowed. Brian