wales@ucla-cs.UUCP (03/05/87)
While trying to analyze the "date not advancing at midnight" problem I recently reported on my "turbo" XT clone (a Wugo PCII-AD from Sun Com- puters Inc., running MS-DOS 3.2 and Award XT BIOS 2.03), I mentioned the problem to a friend who is in the personal computer business. As soon as he heard me say "MS-DOS 3.2", he said that 3.2 was well known to be *so* full of bugs (including disk corruption problems!) that I'd be extremely well advised to "downgrade" my system to MS-DOS 3.1 as soon as I possibly could. He said further that his company had declined an upgrade to MS-DOS 3.2, preferring instead to wait until 3.21 comes out. Comments, anyone? -- Rich Wales // UCLA Computer Science Department // +1 213-825-5683 3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, California 90024-1600 // USA wales@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU ...!(ucbvax,sdcrdcf,ihnp4)!ucla-cs!wales "Sir, there is a multilegged creature crawling on your shoulder."
jdf@pbhyc.UUCP (Jack Fine) (03/06/87)
In article wales@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU (Rich Wales) writes: >. I mentioned the problem to a friend who is in the personal computer business. >As soon as he heard me say "MS-DOS 3.2", he said that 3.2 was well known >to be *so* full of bugs (including disk corruption problems!) that I'd >be extremely well advised to "downgrade" my system to MS-DOS 3.1 as soon >as I possibly could. I too was concerned about DOS 3.2 and posted a similar question to the net about 2 or 3 months ago. I did not get any responses back that would indicate any major problems. Since then I have upgraded 9 10 meg pc-xts one 20 meg pc-xt and a hardcard 20 on a clone to dos 3.2 with no problems and in fact I kind of like the added features of 3.2 over even 3.1. Let me know if you (or anyone else ) have trouble with it. I would like to be forwarned if trouble is pending. Jack