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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PC-DOS on compatible system
Message-ID: <30782@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 7 May 89 19:32:48 GMT
References: <3816@peora.ccur.com> <1792@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Reply-To: madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
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In article <1792@ubu.warwick.UUCP> dalm@emerald.UUCP (David Michael) writes:
|In article <3816@peora.ccur.com> tran@peora.ccur.com (Nhan Tran) writes:
|>I have IBM-DOS 3.3 (not MS-DOS).  Can I use it on an AT-compatible?  I
|
|Yes, IBM DOS will work in any machine that will run MS DOS, they are
|essencially the same thing, only IBM have stuck their name on it.

There are some other differences too, but generally PC-DOS will run on
any mostly-true compatible.  Neat things happen if you try to run it
on a Rainbow, though(*); that machine REALLY wants its own version of
MS-DOS.

jim frost
madd@bu-it.bu.edu

(*)there are probably fewer than a thousand people in the world who
ever ran MS-DOS on a Rainbow.  Makes me feel special.