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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Win 3.0 & MSDOS 5.0
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Date: 26 Jun 91 03:47:05 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <9106240409.AA04727@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> herring@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (John B. Herring) writes:
>To those who have win 3.0 & msdos 5.0:
>
>	Do you recommend upgrading to DOS 5.0?  What advantages does it
>	have over Dos 3.2?  I have a 386dx, VGA, 8MB RAM.

I definitely do recommend it.

I don't know WHAT they fixed, but a number of Windows type things
(refreshing the Program Manager, for instance) run noticeably faster
under DOS 5.0 than under 4.01.  This is with the same configuration of
everything else.

DOS 5 also lets you free up more conventional memory, unless you were
using a well tweaked QEMM already in which case you already have that.

You also get a better DOS editor.

I wouldn't pay $100 for DOS 5, but the $39 Egghead upgrade is well worth
it, in my opinion.