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From: bammi@cwruecmp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: DOS 2.5 vs. DOS 3.0
Message-ID: <1864@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Mar-87 18:44:43 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 13 18:44:43 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Mar-87 15:04:31 EST
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Reply-To: bammi@cwruecmp.UUCP (Jwahar R. Bammi)
Organization: CWRU Dept. of Computer Engineering, Cleveland, Ohio
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Summary: can you say dumb dos?

absolutely what marc says... dos 3.0 was a big mistake on atari's part...
among its many features:  incompatibility with dos 2.x disks...
dos 2.5 is your best bet for 1050 based systems..., but if you really
want a thrill, go to your local atari dealer, and ask him to install
a usdoubler in your 1050... usdoubler is made by icd out of chicago, and
it is an excellent hardware improvement... by itself, the doubler doesn't
changer your life at all, but with icd's spartados you enter the big
leagues... among the usdoubler/spartados many features are:

	1) transparent compatibility with any disk format
	2) very well done msdos-like command line dos with
		file time/date stamping
	3) spartados is also compatible with hard disk drives

one catch:  you really need an xl/xe machine to enjoy all that spartados
has to offer... i almost forgot, the usdoubler chipset in a 1050 gives you
true double density capability, and double or triple the speed on disk i/o.

			Brad Banko
			Cleveland, Ohio
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