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From: donnel@helix.nih.gov (Donald A. Lehn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Does DOS 5.0 improve Windows Speed?
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Date: 16 Jun 91 01:05:19 GMT
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In article <6244@mindlink.bc.ca> Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn) writes:
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->     Some of the publicity material for DOS 5.0 suggests that it radically
->speeds up the loading and/or running of Windows.  If anyone is installing DOS
->5.0, would they please do a bit of stop-watch work and post what they see with
->their old DOS and DOS 5.0.
->--
->Bruce Dunn    Vancouver, Canada   Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca

	I just got my MS-DOS 5.0 upgrade from Egghead.  (They have a special,
only $39 and they didn't even bother to check whether I was a registered DOS
user.  I guess by selling their product inexpensively,  MS wants to get a few
bucks out of everyone than a lot out of a few.  Its nice to see a company 
pushing to sell a tremendous volume at a reasonable price than trying to gouge
the few and causing everyone who can't afford it to steal.)  Its easy to 
install and it appears to work perfectly although the jury is still out.
The dosshell.exe that comes with it puts the windows filemanager to shame. 
It appears to have all the features without all of the little annoying 
nuisances.  (Like redrawing the screen after ever deletion of a multiple 
selection.)  One thing I did notice is that it leaves a lot more
lower dos memory avaliable.  It puts a bit of its code into high memory which
frees up more of the lower memory.  I especially like the new program list/
launcher.  By setting it up I got rid of all of my batch files.

Don Lehn