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Subject: Re: Looking For IBM or OPEN DOS Inhancements
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Greetings,

I sincerely appreciate your helpful response. Due to recent
research, I have concluded that PCDOS is pretty much out of the
question if I am going to obtain a higher level of functionality
with regard to my use of DOS. I have therefore decided that DRDOS
is by far my only viable option.

Do any of you good people know where I can obtain a downloadable
version of DRDOS? Furthermore, what might be the cost of
registration and/or support? Also, does it allow for memory usage
above the 8.6 megs of ram generally allotted by other versions of
DOS? For that matter, what about the possibility of multi-tasking?

Bright Blessings,
RiverWind

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Angela Scholder - M1SCH / PE1BIV wrote:

> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:25:10 -0000
> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> From: Angela Scholder - M1SCH / PE1BIV <dos-mail AT scholder DOT nl>
> Subject: Re: Looking For IBM or OPEN DOS Inhancements
> 
> Hi all,
>
>> I sincerely appreciate yor help. There doesn't seem to be very many dos
>> users out there anymore, so it is a bit refreshing to run into one every
>> now and then. Might you know of any other versions of dos that are more
>> dynamic than PCDOS? I mean, with more memory and multi-tasking
>> capabilities.
> I'm still running DR-DOS 7.03 on several machines for JNOS Packet Radio and
> I use JNOS as for several servers.
> DR-DOS has a version of QEMM build in the EMM.
> I started, obviously, with M$ DOS 5.0 as supplied with the computer and have
> used that with QEMM 6 I think it was, but reasonably quicly moved to DR-DOS.
> I have a PC DOS copy, but I definitely prefer DR-DOS.
>
> You might also check out FreeDOS.
> Is is supposed and indeed seems to be a very powerfull DOS, but I only have
> been playing with it for a moment. It seems it needs somewhat of a learning
> curve, at least that was my impression as I did get a bit of a Linux
> commandline version install when I did install it on a test machine that I
> basically did not look at since due to lack of time.
>
>
> Angela
>
>
>
> (3th)
>
>
>