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From: agollum@engr.uky.edu (David Herron aka Admiral Gollum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Re: Help with an IBM compatible.
Message-ID: <2161@ukecc.engr.uky.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 88 16:17:34 GMT
References: <8803241628.AA04994@decwrl.dec.com> <1986@optilink.UUCP>
Reply-To: agollum@engr.uky.edu (David Herron aka Admiral Gollum)
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Organization: Univ. of KY Engineering Computing Center
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In episode <1986@optilink.UUCP>, we
heard cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) say:
>...GWBASIC is
>needed from Microsoft -- this is included with MSDOS releases.  (MSDOS
>is of course not available from Microsoft, but from the manufacturer.
>If your manufacturer no longer exists -- maybe you can hope that your
>hardware is similar enough to some other manufacturer to use the MSDOS
>that comes with it.)

As of version 3.2, Microsoft has a retail version of MS-DOS.  In other
words, you can buy it direct.  I don't know about 3.3, but I assume
it's available too.  BTW they don't leave any of the utilities (like LINK)
out and, judging from the comments I've read here, the docs are better
than what most of the dealers provide.  The /E parameter to COMMAND.COM
is documented, for instance.  I think the price is less than $90.

Kenneth Herron