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From: nina@panix.uucp (Nina Yuan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: IBM vs. MS DOS 5 (was Re: Why PC DOS 5.0 = $100 & MS 5.0 = $40)
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.222610.21158@panix.uucp>
Date: 19 Jun 91 22:26:10 GMT
References: <1991Jun18.011419.5625@socrates.umd.edu> <8578@awdprime.UUCP>
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In article <8578@awdprime.UUCP> woan@cactus.org writes:
>Egghead sells the IBM PCDOS upgrade version for the same price as the
>MSDOS version. The higher price is for the licensed IBM PCDOS,
>assuming that you didn't have an earlier version/license to upgrade
>from. I don't think that MS has a non upgrade version of 5.0 yet.

OK, I guess the obvious question is: what's the difference between PC-DOS 5.0
and MS-DOS 5.0?  Is there a difference?  In previous versions, the only
difference I can recall is BASICA vs. GW-BASIC, which shouldn't matter now
that Microsoft is including a QuickBasic complier.  Any comments?  (btw, I
have an IBM AT with PC-DOS 3.1).


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Harvard College                            PANIX -- Public Access Unix of NY
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