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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Subject: Re: MSDOS 5.0 compatible with 4DOS?
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Date: 14 Jun 91 15:35:14 GMT

dwebster@cs.arizona.edu (Dave E. Webster, Jr.) writes:

>   I have one question:  Why did you upgrade to DOS 5.0?  What do you gain
>   over DOS 3.3 (I refuse to consider DOS 4.x as an intermediate version ;-})?

One answer: on my testbed machine, 46 KB additional memory below the 640K line
without having to buy an additional software product.

Joe