tomf@cms2.lonestar.org (Tom Fortner) (07/16/90)
Date: 13 Jul 90 06:50:23 MST (Fri)
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Organization: Christian Medical & Dental Society
In the following article you wrote...
#I have been using IBM-type machines for years at work but have only
#just recently purchased one for home use. I was under the impression
#that Radio Shack was going to include MS-DOS 3.3 with my AT clone but
#instead I got Tandy's version 3.20.22. Is IBM's PC-DOS 3.3 identical
#to MS-DOS 3.3? Will PC-DOS have trouble with the Phoenix BIOS ROM? I
#guess these are pretty naive questions so please reply by e-mail so as
#not to consume people's disk space etc.
#
Marc
It depends on the Phoenix BIOS they used. I have a Phoenix BIOS in my
Packard Bell VX88 and it runs PC-DOS fine, but would not run MS-DOS.
I don't know why, since MS-DOS is supposed to be the one for non-IBM
machines.
Tom
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