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From: howard@kcl-cs.UUCP (JR Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Yet more MSDOS5.0 questions.
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Date: 12 Feb 91 17:10:34 GMT
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Organization: Department of Computing, King's College London
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I may have missed it, but while there's all this hype on MSDOS5.0 taking
a small area of low memory.  A secondary and equally important question
also exists:

   Has 'sys.com' been improved?

Generally speaking, every increase in DOS has meant larger system files.  As
these seem to 'have' to sit at the begining of a harddisc's boot area,
upgrading normally means scratching the boot drive - temporaly or otherwise.
Downgrading - that wonderful thing you can do by mistake, works fine as the
system files are smaller and the space is restricted to the previous versions
size.

Anyone know the angle on this 'feature' in MSDOS5.0?  32Meg worth of floppies
doesn't strike me as a 'fun' idea in order to achieve the upgrade.

JR