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From: sammy@cbnewsd.att.com (Sammy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: MSDOS v5.0
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.044059.22347@cbnewsd.att.com>
Date: 13 Jun 91 04:40:59 GMT
References: <23375@shlump.lkg.dec.com> <1991Jun11.223417.30511@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
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In article <1991Jun11.223417.30511@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir) writes:
>In article <23375@shlump.lkg.dec.com> donham@prarie.enet.dec.com (Progress Through Tradition) writes:
>>FYI...
>>
>>Egghead (in New England, don't know about the rest of the country) has
>>MSDOS V5.0 in stock right now for $39. Several folks here at DEC have
>>already purchased and installed it.
>>
>
>So!  Anybody know how it is?  Is it as good as DR-DOS 5.0?

It's terrific! I bought it this morning, and haven't installed it yet,
but have had plenty of time to look at the manual, which is almost 
worth the price itself - so much easier to understand than the manual
I got when I bought my Compaq with 3.3 installed.

First off, you can have any size hard disk you want. Extended and
expanded memory are supported - DOS will install itself into himem.
There is a decent screen editor (edlin is still supported), a shell
which contains a file manager, a tree-like display of directories,
the ability to move (rather than copy and del) files, doskey - which
allows you to call up and edit previous commands (not just the last
one executed), and macros. 

I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but for $40.00, you can't go wrong.
Egghead also has a special on a Que book on 5.0 for $9.95. Probably
worth it.

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