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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 01:52:53 -0400
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Mark,

I have PCDOS 7 rev. 1 (PCDOS 2000) on my 486.  I bought it from IBM on
CD-ROM.  I bought it becasue I got tired of the DR-DOS EMM366 flaking
out when trying to use certain software, or functions of that software. 
I also didn't like that Lineo wasn't doing anything with it even thought
they knew they had bug, such as the Fdisk/Format thing that people are
going round and round about.  I guess I wanted a version of DOS that
wasn't Microsoft, but was still built in a professional way.  

I have thought about using other DOS versons.  I have downloaded quite a
few others such as Rom DOS, and PTS-DOS, but some of them are different
enough, even more than DR-DOS, to be require effort to set up, something
I didn't feel like doing at the time :-)

I would like to try Concurrent multi-dos, or whatever it is called
again.  That is setup really really weird!

I have also thought about setting up DRDOS again, but with QEMM8

I don't really do multi-boot type setups, so I don't know what PCDOS
does when it encounters Windows 9x.  I use it with WFWG 3.11.

Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA

Mark at Cross+Road's wrote:
> What about
> IBM's PC-dos 2000?  You can still buy it from IBM even in floppy I believe!
> Does anyone use it and how does it compare to DrDOS #703?  Has it also got a
> bootloader which automatically dectects W95-or 98?  Is it more stable with
> "no" emm386 errors?  Do you know of a "list" for it's users?
>     Just wondering.
>     Mark