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From: schuster@panix.uucp (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: MSDOS 5.0
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.231139.19455@panix.uucp>
Date: 3 Apr 91 23:11:39 GMT
References: <9ueTZ1w163w@mimas.UUCP>
Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY
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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?
>

MS-DOS 5.0 has got to be the most poorly kept secret in recent history.
So many beta test copies are floating around (actually they're at the
"Release Candidate" stage, so it'll be soon) that it seems =everyone=
is running an operating system that doesn't exist. Maybe Microsoft
intended it that way, as it allows infinitely more beta testers :-)


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