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From: pozar@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Pozar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PC-DOS on compatible system
Message-ID: <7201@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 8 May 89 01:26:23 GMT
References: <3816@peora.ccur.com> <1792@ubu.warwick.UUCP> <30782@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: pozar@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Pozar)
Organization: Late Night Software (San Francisco)
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In article <30782@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost) writes:
>In article <1792@ubu.warwick.UUCP> dalm@emerald.UUCP (David Michael) writes:
>|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.

    Uh, ya.  David's information is totally not true.  Jim's
comment is almost there.  MS-DOS has been ported to a number of
wierd and strange machines.  PC-DOS is basicly MS-DOS with code
specificly for IBM-PC/AT machines.  If you have a 99.9%
compatible machine, then PC-DOS should (read, SHOULD) work.  A
friend of mine was one of the first employees at Phoniex<sp?>
and it was his job to port MS-DOS to different machines.  Up
until a couple of months ago, he was running MS-DOS 3.3 on a
multi-bus box using an INTEL 8086/8085 CPU card.  You should
have seen the strange array of tape backup, and hard disk
devices he had hanging off this box.

	 Tim

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