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Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 18:45:34 -0700
From: Neal <neal AT pysmatic DOT net>
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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DR-DOS and Windows Co-existing?
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Paul -

DR-DOS 7.02 is  free for personal use (check license for terms).

DR-DOS 7.03 has some nasty bugs, I use 7.02 seems more stable,
both are available at the ftp site. OpenDos 7.01 is behind the last version
of
Novell DOS 7 w/patches.

Can be downloaded from here: ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/drdos/

Is  multitasking.

Will dual boot with windows 95 (needs some care in setting it up).

You can send me direct mail if other questions.

Neal

Paul O Bartlett wrote:

>     I really don't much like Windows, but it came bundled on my
> computer when I bought it.  Actually I rather liked MS-DOS, although
> its lack of multitasking was something of a limitation.  I am
> considering looking into DR-DOS, and I see that it can be bought from
> Lineo.  I am not an expert in these things.  Does anyone know if it is
> possible for DR-DOS and Windows to co-exist on one machine, and if so
> if it is possible to specify which one wants to boot up?  (And if so,
> how does one do that?)  To be honest, about all I really use Windows
> for as such is to run a web browser and a basic(!) word processor.  For
> email (which I use heavily) I simply run a terminal emulator to dial
> into a unix shell account.
>
>     Thanks very much.
>
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