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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:48:55 -0700
From: Neal <lbneal AT pysmatic DOT net>
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Now that the discussion has continued, I remember....

I bought MS-DOS 5.00 and installed it....

It promptly started to trash my HD...

It was after that experience that I never seriously used MS/PC-DOS...
 --Sometimes MS-DOS 6.22 can resolve problems in DR-DOS fdisk.

It's been DR-DOS every since.

MS-DOS 5.00 was a rush effort to try to "match" DR-DOS, because MS-DOS was
so deficient in comparison (Bill was getting worried at this point)  :-)
-- In this time frame is where the "kill DR-DOS at any cost" effort was started,
which was
 a success.

Again, my list is "suggestions" NOT gospel.

I really like the Apr 93 (final) version of DR-DOS.

Neal
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Marc D. Williams wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 11:31:40AM -0700, Neal wrote:
> >
> > MS-DOS 5.00 is notoriously bad, I'm not familiar with 5.01 or 5.02.
> >
> Hmm, I was always figured 5.00 was one of their better offerings.
> Never had problems with it and on a couple of old machines I used
> it exclusively (wouldn't put any higher versions as they didn't offer
> anything worth upgrading for).
> I don't remember if there ever was an MS-DOS 5.01 or higher.
>
> > The list is presented to "suggest" ways to avoid unnecessary problems when
> > using an older DOS or even a newer one.  Folks that have never used DOS,
> > should be kinda steered away from bad versions, so they don't have
> > unnecessary problems :-)
> >
> I haven't been to the page yet but I assume you list what's bad about
> various versions? The MS-DOS 5 thing seems not right.
> Probably something I'm unaware of.
>
>
> --
> >>ANIME SENSHI<<
>
> Marc D. Williams
> marcdw AT flash DOT net
> http://www.oldskool.org/~tvdog/ -- DOS Internet & Tandy 1000
> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Platform/8269/ -- Win3.x Makeover