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From: ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS version 5?
Keywords: DOS5
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Date: 9 Jan 91 15:37:51 GMT
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>Does it exist yet? If not, does anyone have any idea when it might
>be released. I seem to recall rumours of a release around the end of 1990.
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Look for it in MARCH or April. I heard (on the net) that MS is wary of 
another DOS 4.0/4.01. 4.0 had enough bugs that by the time 4.01 came out,
people had decided they could get along on 3.3. So MS is testing 5.0 very
carefully. Anyway, that's the story I heard.
			-ted- 

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