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From: ssircar@ecs.umass.edu (Good writers re-write -- not write!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: MSDOS 5.0
Message-ID: <13056.27f9d3c9@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 91 13:08:25 GMT
References: <9ueTZ1w163w@mimas.UUCP>
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In article <9ueTZ1w163w@mimas.UUCP>, vcl@mimas.UUCP (Victor C. Limary) writes:
>   Where are you people getting MS-DOS 5.0 from?  Is it only available to 
> test users, or is MS really shipping?  And how much better is it than me 
> using MS-DOS 3.3, QEMM-386, and 4DOS?  (other than the drive partitioning 
> of course).  Is it really worth the ~$100 to upgrade?  Any 
> incompatibility problems, big improvements, etc?
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I saw an ad for DOS 5, but it have a price.  Can someone sum up the improvements
between DOS 3.3 and 5?  Is DOS 5 going to have the same compatibility problems
as DOS 4?
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