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From: RiverWind <riverwind AT shellworld DOT net>
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Subject: RE: Looking For IBM or OPEN DOS Inhancements
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Greetings,

I do indeed appreciate your response here. In your post, you
mentioned memory penalties. Would you please elucidate a bit? Since
my system was originally a win95 machine, I am sure that I am
running a fat32 partition. To what extent were you able to improve
upon conventional memory? Are you able to multi-task, I.E. are you
able to run multiple applications using shell features or some sort
of a hot key? Before I begin experimentation, I would first like to
get an idea as to what I might be getting into.



Bright Blessings,
RiverWind

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, daSilva, Joe wrote:

> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:24:14 +1100
> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> From: "daSilva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT landisgyr DOT com>
> Subject: RE: Looking For IBM or OPEN DOS Inhancements
> 
> Hi Riv,
>
> I haven't experimented much with PC-DOS, however I understand
> that it offers better memory management than the MS-DOS family.
>
> The interest in PC-DOS 7.1 (as with MS-DOS 7.1) is the support
> for FAT32 and LBA.
>
> The most free conventional memory I have achieved was using
> DR-DOS 7.02/7.03, however that didn't include FAT32 and LBA
> support. There is an enhanced version of DR-DOS 7.01 that
> does (see http://www.drdosprojects.de/) but there will be some
> memory penalty in so doing. If you experiment with this and
> with PC-DOS 7.1, I'm sure we here would be interested in
> hearing your results.
>
> Joe.
>
>>
>
> Joe daSilva
> Senior Electronic Engineer
> Phone: +61 2 9690 7309
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: RiverWind [mailto:riverwind AT shellworld DOT net]
>> Sent: Thursday, 29 January 2009 11:23 PM
>> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
>> Subject: RE: Looking For IBM or OPEN DOS Inhancements
>>
>>
>> Joe,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Riv
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, daSilva, Joe wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:27:08 +1100
>>> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
>>> From: "daSilva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT landisgyr DOT com>
>>> Subject: RE: Looking For IBM or OPEN DOS Inhancements
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Well, I found PC-DOS 7.1 available within another
>>> package, see :
>>>
>>> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ArachneDevelopment/message/3256
>>>
>>> The original link seems to have changed to :
>>>
>>>
>> http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisp
>> lay?lndocid=MIGR-53564&brandind=5000008
>>>
>>> Seems what you should download is titled :
>>> "ibm_sw_sgtk_1_3_07_anyos_anycpu.zip"
>>>
>>> Hope that helps.
>>>
>>> Joe.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Joe daSilva
>>> Senior Electronic Engineer
>>> Landis+Gyr
>>> Phone: +61 2 9690 7309
>>> joe DOT dasilva AT landisgyr DOT com
>>> http://www.landisgyr.com/
>>>
>>> Manage Energy Better
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: RiverWind [mailto:riverwind AT shellworld DOT net]
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, 31 December 2008 11:03 AM
>>>> To: Open Dos Discussion Group
>>>> Subject: Looking For IBM or OPEN DOS Inhancements
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi There,
>>>>
>>>>       I have been a user of IBMDOS ever since the winter of two-
>>>> thousand. I have found it to be more reliable than MSDOS in some
>>>> ways, and inferior in others.
>>>>
>>>>       I have two primary issues with which I could use and
>> certainly
>>>> would appreciate help. First of all, Ramboost isn't allocating
>>>> enough memory resources to allow me to use more than one utility at
>>>> a time, such as invoking the shell feature of one program so that
>>>> I can use another utility.
>>>>
>>>>       Are there more current versions of IBMDOS than the two-
>>>> thousand version? If not, then are there any memory allocation or
>>>> even multi-tasking utilities that one can purchase through IBM or
>>>> some other vender?
>>>>
>>>>       Again, any and all help I can get from you good people would
>>>> be most highly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Ray Jackson
>>>>
>>>> "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for those whom we
>>>> despise, we don't believe in it at all." Noam Chomsky
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
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