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From: jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: MS-DOS 5.0
Message-ID: <1991May16.174140.26161@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 16 May 91 17:41:40 GMT
Sender: jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle)
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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First off let me apologize for cross-posting between these newsgroups, but
DOS users who read DOS newsgroups and DOS users who read Mac newsgroups have
VERY different perspectives and I want both of them. Please do not start a
flame war out of this.

Now for the subject of this post:

The other day I was told by a person from the Electronics Shop that MS-DOS
would fix ALL of DOS's problems. Though I sincerely doubt that ANY OS will
ever have all of its problems solved, I have the following questions 
regarding MS-DOS 5.0.

  1)  What problems does it solve (this guy said that the 640K limit would
      go away completely so that any amount of memory could be used and that
      it would have built in "sturdy" multitasking among other things)?

  2)  How good are the actual improvements looking/how important are they?

  3)  How soon is this supposed to be coming out?

This information is requested solely out of my desire to be better informed
about MS-DOS.

Jess Holle