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From: todd@pinhead.pegasus.com (Todd Ogasawara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 & QEMM-386 5.12
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.215311.4247@pinhead.pegasus.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 21:53:11 GMT
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Organization: Hawaii Medical Service Association
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In article <BCHEN.91Jun13090414@wpi.WPI.EDU> bchen@wpi.WPI.EDU (Bi Chen) writes:
>	I current use DOS v4.01 with QEMM386 v5.11 and Windows v3.0
>and have not counter any problem so far. I wonder if I should upgrade
>to DOS v5.0. Apart from the loading high of part of DOS, you folks 
>still use LOADHI in QEMM386 rather than that offered by DOS v5.0,
>what is the advantage of DOS v5.0? Is it only becuase it has less
>bugs?

Having only used DOS 5.0 for a few days now, I think there are several
advantages it has over its predecessors.

1. efficient memory usage on 286 and 386 boxes with at least 1M RAM
2. installation "awareness" of third party programs (OnTrack, QEMM, etc.)
3. network "awareness"
4. elimination of the need for SHARE with large disk partitions
5. standardizing on PC Tools' FORMAT, UNFORMAT, UNDELETE, and MIRROR
   (as others pointed out to me :-)
6. DOS help availability for all built in commands and supplied utilities.
   (Can't remember all the FORMAT options? Just type 'format /?')
7. replacing GWBASIC with a variant of QuickBASIC (interpreter only, no
   compiler like with QB 4.5).
8. Supplying a real full screen editor (which is really QBASIC called with
   into a different configuration)
9. Smartening up DIR (finally!) so it can sort directories, etc. (Heck,
   DIR is almost as useful as UNIX' ls now).
10. And (maybe) the support of 2.88MB 3.5" drives is interesting. Too bad
   the drives and media are not cost effective yet.

From the top of my head, those are just some of the things I've found
interesting about 5.0.
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