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From: orenalex@bimacs.BITNET (oren alex)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 4DOS vs MSDOS 5.0 ?
Message-ID: <3318@bimacs.BITNET>
Date: 28 May 91 18:16:27 GMT
References: <11425@mirsa.inria.fr>
Reply-To: orenalex@bimacs.UUCP (oren alex)
Organization: Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
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In article <11425@mirsa.inria.fr> berrone@yragael.inria.fr (Jean-Pierre Berrone) writes:
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>       Has anybody tried to compare 4DOS and MSDOS 5.0 ?

Silly!
You don't COMPARE those products, you COMBINE them!
The combination of dos 5.0 + 4dos is >-great-<

I'd really wish you people stop asking for a comparison of DOS vs 4DOS.
DOS is an operating system (some may dispute this...)
4DOS is a command interpreter that runs on top of DOS and replaces COMMAND.COM
Asking to compare the two is like asking to compare UNIX and csh.

4dos is vastly superior to command.com, it has more commands, more features,
and can use swapping (disk/ramdisk/EMS/XMS) to take less memory.

The only feature COMMAND.COM on dos 5.0 has that 4DOS has not is the LOADHI
command (pretty usefull).
HOWEVER - if you use a 3rd party memory manager (like QEMM) you can use
it's loadhigh features instead (QEMM's loadhi is better than DOS's).

4dos is shareware so you can try it yourself and buy it only if you
decide to continue using it.
And you will!

Bye,
        Alex.