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From: unicorn@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Harry E Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: dos 3.3 or 4.01
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Date: 15 May 91 01:56:40 GMT
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nbeck@weber.ucsd.edu (Nathaniel Beck) writes:

>I am getting a new 486 and Gateway will install either Dos 3.3 or
>4.01 at my option. With an 80M HD it would be nice to avoid having
>C, D and E drives using Dos 4.01. But I remember that a while ago
>people shied away from 4.01 because it was reputed to be buggy. Is
>this still the case, and should I stick with tried and true 3.3?

I'm not completely sure about this, but here is my 1.5 cents worth.

MSDOS 4.00 was buggy, but was corrected with 4.01, which is suppose to
work fine. IBM's version of DOS 4.00 works just fine, because they put
it out after MicroSoft 4.00 was reported to be buggy (or just crap!).
I use IBM DOS 4.00 and have no problems or qualms at all.

(A little side comment you can ignore)
It seems strange that MS cannot produce products that are at least fairly
bug-free. What do they do, ignore their beta users! Also even though I
know that speed is not everything, it should at least mean something!
They only MS products I find userfull is MS Word 5.0 and MS EXCEL (great
product!!!). If there are any MS people out there then all I can say is:

        GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!

Sorry about that, but these guys really tick me off!!!

>Thanks in advance

You are welcome in retrograde!!

>Neal
 
Harry E. Miller - "The Four-Fingered Bandit"
unicorn@uxh.uiuc.cso.edu - Smile the Unicorn is watching you!