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From: prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: New DOS(s)
Keywords: MS-DOS, DR-DOS, 5.0
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.201719.26512@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 11 Jun 91 20:17:19 GMT
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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I just read a very positive review of the new MS-DOS (5.0), which
Microsoft has just released. Claims it:
- takes up much less RAM than previous versions;
- includes the very good undelete and unformat utilities from PC Tools
Deluxe;
- dumps EDLIN in favor of a full-screen text editor;
- includes a DOS SHELL that features task switching;
- has a much-improved setup routine, which will take advantage of the
memory between 640K and 1 meg on 386 and 486 machines;
- unlike the notorious version 4.01, has been extensively beta-tested
and debugged before release.

I've also heard (in much less detail) that Digital Research's new DR-DOS
5.0 is quite an imrpovement over MS-DOS 4.x.
I'd be very interested in informed comment on these two products.
Supposedly either makes Windows 3.0 run better - true?
I'm particularly interested in comment from an office-environment
perspective: i.e., no real power users, no programming, just operating
machines running Windows, WordPerfect, PageMaker, Lotus, DataEase, and
etc. And perhaps most importantly, do 286's realize any significant
benefits from these two products, or are 386s really required to see
noticeable improvement?
Let the flames begin...

prb@chinet.chi.il.us
Paul Botts