Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!quiche!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 Message-ID: <1991Apr22.071522.29625@cs.mcgill.ca> Date: 22 Apr 91 07:15:22 GMT References: <1991Apr21.004302.14658@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> Sender: news@cs.mcgill.ca (Netnews Administrator) Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 34 In article <1991Apr21.004302.14658@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> rxcob@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Owen Baker) writes: >edwong@bucsf.bu.edu (Edward Wong) writes: >1. The internal commands within the command interpreter such as dir and copy > now have a /? parameter to display usage instructions. Users at a complete loss can type HELP and you will see a list of ALL available commands. >2. COMMAND.COM is approximately 43Kb in size vs 25-26Kb for v3.3. Im not > sure what the size of the memory resident portion is yet. The kernal in DOS 5.0 can relocate itself to the UMB in 286s+, and as well, on 386+ systems, you can relocate TSRs and devices such that they are also in the UMB. As a result, even with some 10 TSRs and devices, you can still get numbers like 623k free conventional memory with things like QEMM 5.11 etc. >3. The DOS Shell is now graphics based and looks very similiar to Windows 3. The DOS shell still isn't fantastically impressive, and people planning on living off this should likely check out DR DOS 5.0, but it DOES include a task switcher and a few other nifty features. >I have not heard that it has been officially released yet. Anyone know??? They are on Release Candidate 3 last I heard. It will not be offic- ially releassed until sometime late in the summer at least. ./*- -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ storm@cs.mcgill.ca McGill University It's 11pm, do YOU Marc Wandschneider Montreal, CANADA know what time it is? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~