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From: kens@hplsla.HP.COM (Ken Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DR DOS 5.0 (was Re: dos 3.3 or 4.01)
Message-ID: <12990006@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 22 May 91 22:12:13 GMT
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 dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
| 
| In a previous article, proberts@disk.uucp (Phil Roberts) says:
| >
| >Why, "according to all reports", is DR DOS 5.0 superior?
| 
| I have a 386sx20 with 3 megs of ram
   387DX w/8 megs running MSDOS 4.01
| 
| in my config.sys I have:
| 
| emm386.sys
    QEMM386

| ansi.sys
    me too
| an ems disk cache prog. that comes with dr dos 5.0
    NCACHE-F, Norton's disc cacher

| f-driver from f-prot anti virus
| and clarkson packet drivers
    I have HPIB.SYS, RAMDRIVE.SYS
| 
| in my autoexec.bat I have:
| 
| CED Command line EDitor
    4DOS already has a built in CED

| gmouse
    MOUSE

| and more packet driver stuff.
    no packets for me
| 
| 
| According to norton 5.0, I have 584k of free conventional memory left.
    According to Norton 5.0 I have 587k of conventional memory left.
| 
| That's pretty superior.
    Superior to what????

  I am curious about DRDOS 5.0 (I've seen the adds) but the question
remains, what will it do for me that I don't already have?  Obviously,
memory management isn't it (at least from this example).

Ken