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From: gerry@dialogic.com (Gerry Lachac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Help! MSDOS 5.0
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.132438.21903@dialogic.com>
Date: 13 Jun 91 13:24:38 GMT
References: <9106120222.AA18058@cwns16.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1991Jun13.000444.18189@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
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In article <1991Jun13.000444.18189@ucselx.sdsu.edu> coxc0032@ucselx.sdsu.edu (David Tse) writes:
>ak698@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Timothy Stark) writes:

>>it will be retail product but I found out that MSDOS 5.0 still is not
>>retail product and upgrade-only version (required DOS 2.11 or later).
>>I unable to find *FULL* version of MSDOS 5.0. 
>
>I don't know your definition of full version, but I read the 5.0 box,
>saying you need 2.11 or later installed, so may be it's not a full version.


The Upgrade version of DOS5.0 can be had for cheaper than the Full
version.  The Upgrade version has no boot disk, which means that you
have to have some older version of DOS in order to install it.  At
least, this is how I understand it.



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