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From: "Mark at Cross+Road's" <mark1 AT mich DOT com>
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 22:44:55 -0600
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Subject: PcDos 2000
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com


Hi Chad,
     Well what have you then thought of the Pcdos 2000?, or is that version
you have not current?
     I think that the current version does self detect for W9x and like
Drdos loads a boot loader in order to choose one or the other.
     Is there a committment do you know by IBM to develope further or is it
also the end of the line for Pcdos 2000?
    I really begin to wonder where the "dos" can go from here?  If there's
ideas of a 32-bit version won't that in some ways make it not work with
current "dos" stuff, those favorite programs?
    Just wondering if the IBM dos 2000 is less flaky as you've found and if
there's a users group for support?  I've always found that loading the fcb's
high and others "high" loading options in the Drdos would always cause an
emm386 error when going into windows 3.1- and at times other general
programs even those such as Nettamer can cause the error when sorting or
reading mail!  I never had that error with Dr6.0- and have since come to
understand that the 6.0 is a compleatly different product.  If Pcdos 2000 is
going to be around and have support and developement it's about time maybe
to finally say bye to Drdos and work with another more stable source.
There's at least two linux versions now that can be put into a dos
partition and have to fool-with while learning linux so perhaps using a more
stable dos while moving to linux will be a good choice.  I just still
wondered for those times if needed does the Pcdos allow for the co-habitation
of W9x and the dos like Drdos does by loading the duel bootloader?
           Thanks for any answers,
     Mark


On 2000-10-29 opendos AT delorie DOT com said:
   >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
   >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