Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 17:06:47 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <3.0.16.19900703095236.33f705c8@hem.passagen.se> X-Sender: bernie AT hem DOT passagen DOT se X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 Demo (16) To: opendos AT delorie DOT com From: Bernie Subject: Re: Fw: PTS-DOS Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Mark wrote: >How about some comprehensive listing of the O's and how they differ from >each other? But this would be filled with many personal opinions, I'll make a short one anyway > Has anyone tried them all Drdos, Pcdos, PTS dos... and is there >a way to understand what are the best portions of each without having to >install the dos? I haveb't tried them all, but that will not stop me from judging them >Have some advantages that others haven't? (a measily attempt of a list) + good thing - bad thing / neither MS-DOS: + 100% stabel + 100% compatabil + can create the largest disk cache (32MB for 6.x - ca 36.5MB for 7.x) + can use the most XMS (64MB for 6.x - higher for 7.x) - not sold anymore (ok, it comes bundeld with Win9x) / not developed (not much anyway - it isn't needed IMHO) DR-DOS + free for personal use + comes with Novell PNW - Not stable - Not developed (it could sure need it) - Extremly bad text editor (I actually prefer using "echo" instead of it) I don't know about compatability. Paragon-DOS: + FAT32 support + shareware demo exists + still developed PTS-DOS + shareware demo exists + still developed FreeDOS + still developed - Problems with "large" (above some 500MB) HDs (last I heard anyway - perhaps someone can confirm/deny this) / OpenSourced (just because something is under GPL doesn't it make it great IMNSHO) IBM-DOS (aka. PC-DOS) - Extremly bad text editor (I actually prefer using "echo" instead of it) Sorry, that's all I remember from it (this was not the latest version that came out either so it might have changed). >For example >how about stability? >It would be good to know which gives the greatest >stability without any emm or other flaky errors. If you want stability there's one 100% sure way to get it - use MS-DOS. Therefor I switched back from DR-DOS, but kept Novell PNW so that I can keep my network running.