Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!val!ben From: ben@val.com (Ben Thornton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 soon? Message-ID: <1991Feb1.222609.6564@val.com> Date: 1 Feb 91 22:26:09 GMT References: <19770001@hpctdpa.HP.COM> Organization: Video Associates Labs Lines: 28 rcm@hpctdpa.HP.COM (Rick Myers) writes: >/ hpctdpa:comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware / hh2@prism.gatech.EDU (HAAS) / 11:08 am Jan 25, 1991 / >> Again, for reference: IBM told me that saying DOS Version 4.01 was >> an error. They say that it is still DOS 4.00, with the CSDs applied. >> (Corrective Services Disks). It's apparently the public which use >> the number 4.01 and 4.02 to indicate that they have applied the CSDs. >> (that's what ONE person from IBM has said) Also, it might be worth >> noting that there have been (at least) two CSDs for DOS 4.00. I have >> applied both, and the ver command still responds with DOS 4.00. >------- >My DOS says "Microsoft MS-DOS 4.01" right on the master floppy disk >label. I have never applied any 'CSDs'. My ver command responds with >DOS 4.01. Oh great, so now programmers will not know whether or not the DOS4 that their programs run under will have the bugs fixed.... Great thinking on IBM's part. >Rick >rcm@hpctdpe.col.hp.com -- Ben Thornton packet: WD5HLS @ KB5PM Video Associates Internet: ben@val.com Austin, TX uucp: ...!cs.utexas.edu!val!ben Did Schrodinger exist? ...or was that in another universe?