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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Which DOS should I use?
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>the ONLY reason to have 4.x is drive partitioning.  It takes too much memory
>and really adds very little to DOS 3.3.  If you can get Compaq DOS 3.31, it 
>has all the joys of DOS 3.3 plus large partitions.  4dos won't help, it is

Zenith DOS 3.3 Plus also has the above features,
plus a lot of nonstandard Zenith stuff, eg. a 
Norton-like file editor/undeleter called GDI,
a low-level formatter called PREP, FDISK renamed
to PART, etc. I don't know how well it would 
work on a non-Zenith.

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