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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Breaking the 640K Barrier
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Date: 20 Dec 87 15:49:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Dec 20 09:49:00 1987


> 
> Regarding Dos 3.4, it is certainly strange to hear all these conflicting
> reports.  I would guess that the IBM Dos 3.3 Tech Ref. is the last because
> no more fundamental changes are going into Dos with OS/2 out now.  However,
> the official (at least according to ASKINFO, IBM's tech. support) word is
> that there will be another release of Dos to fix some of the bugs in 3.3.
> Perhaps it will only be another update, probably 3.31 or something.

Just remember what Microsoft said about Windows: Any program that runs
in Windows will run on our new multitasking DOS. Then they announced
OS/2, whose windows aren't Microsoft Windows, if you get the meaning.
They will just announce DOS 3.4 and call it something else.