Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!prism!hh2 From: hh2@prism.gatech.EDU (HAAS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 soon? Message-ID: <21140@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 3 Feb 91 20:24:00 GMT References: <19770001@hpctdpa.HP.COM> <1991Feb1.222609.6564@val.com> Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute Lines: 30 In article <1991Feb1.222609.6564@val.com> ben@val.com (Ben Thornton) writes: >rcm@hpctdpa.HP.COM (Rick Myers) writes: >>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. Mybe I wasn't clear enough. I made reference to what IBM had said about thier DOS, which is IBM PC-DOS, *not* Microsoft MS-DOS. As I understand, and Rick verified, MS-DOS *does* have a version called MS-DOS 4.01. There are MANY different DOSes out there, whith no perticular correlation between version numbers of different vendors (yeah, I know, I know . . Microsoft write most, if not all, of most of the versions, still . . ) >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. Yup. Sure was. As far as I know, IBM has never admitted to the fact that they are not the ONLY computer company in existence. And they've been known for years for their "great thinking". (Course, they've come up with some pretty good ideas, too.) >>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? --