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From: seitz@netcom.COM (Matthew Seitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: MSDOS 5.0 compatible with 4DOS?
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.224623.20342@netcom.COM>
Date: 17 Jun 91 22:46:23 GMT
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In article <14097@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> ggurman@cory.Berkeley.EDUIn article <31291@hydra.gatech.EDU> bb16@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Bostater) writes: writes:
>I just installed DR DOS 5.0 which appears to be the same as MS DOS 5.0,
DR DOS 5.0 is not the same as MS DOS 5.0.  DR DOS is an operating system
written by Digital Research as a compatible replacement for MS DOS.  It came out
a few months before MS DOS 5.0.  It has many of the same features as MS-DOS 5.0.
In fact, PC Magazine reported that some of the features of MS-DOS 5.0 were 
added in response to those features being included in DR DOS 5.0.

While DR DOS has many similar features to MS DOS, and is designed to emulate
MS DOS, it was written from scratch by a completely different team of 
programmers and has many internal differences from MS DOS.
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					Matthew Seitz

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