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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.171658.13201@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 22 Apr 91 17:16:58 GMT
References: <1991Apr21.004302.14658@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> <1991Apr22.071522.29625@cs.mcgill.ca> <1991Apr22.113002.4147@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
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In article <1991Apr22.113002.4147@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> 
hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg) writes:
>I have 645k free conventional memory with Dos 3.3 and Qemm 5.11 with
>several devices and TSR's installed. No, it's not a typo, I really have 
>645k free, it is definitively conventional memory and I am really running 
>Dos 3.3.
>
>So why should I upgrade? Is 5.0 any faster?

	Online help, large partitions on the hard drive, and a nifty new shell
(oooooh).

>Does DESQview 2.3 work without any problems?
>What about Norton Commander and all the Norton Utilities?
>And Turbo Profiler, Turbo Debugger 386?

	We have used pretty well everything including things like SideKick
and have encountered no problems whatsoever...

>And what will be the price?

	Probably what DOS normally goes for ~$75....
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storm@cs.mcgill.ca         McGill University           It's 11pm, do YOU
Marc Wandschneider         Montreal, CANADA            know what time it is?
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