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From: conrad@cavebbs.gen.nz (Conrad Bullock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 soon?
Message-ID: <1991Feb04.031853.24048@cavebbs.gen.nz>
Date: 4 Feb 91 03:18:53 GMT
References: <19770001@hpctdpa.HP.COM> <1991Feb1.222609.6564@val.com> <21140@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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In article <21140@hydra.gatech.EDU> hh2@prism.gatech.EDU (HAAS) writes:
>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.

I should point out that later revisions of IBM PC-DOS 4 have a
SYSLEVEL command, that returns the CSD level installed.

At least IBM release bug fixes, insteading of acknowledging and
ignoring, or fixing only in the next full release.

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