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From: ben@catnip.UUCP (Bennett Broder)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: MS/PC DOS?
Message-ID: <394@catnip.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Oct-86 21:20:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: catnip.394
Posted: Wed Oct 22 21:20:01 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 24-Oct-86 00:56:41 EDT
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Reply-To: ben@catnip.UUCP (Bennett Broder)
Organization: The Broder Residence, Holmdel, N.J.  07733
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Keywords: MS-DOS, PC-DOS

In article <985@husc2.UUCP> shields@husc2.UUCP (shields) writes:
>I am an experienced user of PC-DOS, but I am still unclear on
>the exact differences between MS-DOS and PC-DOS. A friend just
>bought an IBM clone (I have the genuine, but don't ask why) and
>his came with MS-DOS 3.1. Should I be jealous of him, or him of
>me?
>
>Any help (even technical) would be appreciated.

There is little if any difference between MS-DOS and PC-DOS.  They are
both the same OS, but PC-DOS is supported by IBM instead of Microsoft
or another hardware vendor.

I have only found one real difference:

* PC-DOS comes with BASIC and BASICA, which utilize the cassette
  basic ROMS on real IBM PCs and ATs.  MS-DOS comes with GWBASIC,
  which is self-contained.  BASICA leaves a trife more, and BASIC
  leaves substantially more free memory for your BASIC code and variables
  than GWBASIC.

Of course, IBM and other OEMs may make certain changes that will prevent
their version of MS-DOS from working on another vendor's computer, however
there should not be any difference in functionality between these different
versions.

-- 

Ben Broder
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