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From: zu@ethz.UUCP (Urs Zurbuchen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Breaking the 640K Barrier - DOS 4.x
Message-ID: <276@bernina.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 88 15:44:25 GMT
References: <839@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> <45900100@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <2273@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> <817@ima.ISC.COM>
Reply-To: zu@bernina.UUCP (Urs Zurbuchen)
Organization: ETH Zuerich, CS Department, Switzerland
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In article <817@ima.ISC.COM> johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine) writes:
>DOS 4.x has been out for a while but as far as I can tell is only sold in
>Europe.  It's a multitasking version of DOS, sort of like Digital Research's

MS-DOS 4.x is an OEM version of MS-DOS 3.x. No operating system was ever
sold as MS-DOS 4.x, not even here in Europe. At least to my knowledge
and I live in Europe. But it was bundled with some IBM-PC clones of
different manufacturers. As far as I know, MS-DOS 4.x is only an internal
name of MicroSoft. But before April 2, 1987 it was also rumored to be
the 80286 specific version of MS-DOS (including multitasking and everything
to be found real soon now in OS/2 which in turn is called BS/2 in
the German speaking part of Europe - thank you IBM :-) ).

		...urs

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