jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle) (05/17/91)
First off let me apologize for cross-posting between these newsgroups, but
DOS users who read DOS newsgroups and DOS users who read Mac newsgroups have
VERY different perspectives and I want both of them. Please do not start a
flame war out of this.
Now for the subject of this post:
The other day I was told by a person from the Electronics Shop that MS-DOS
would fix ALL of DOS's problems. Though I sincerely doubt that ANY OS will
ever have all of its problems solved, I have the following questions
regarding MS-DOS 5.0.
1) What problems does it solve (this guy said that the 640K limit would
go away completely so that any amount of memory could be used and that
it would have built in "sturdy" multitasking among other things)?
2) How good are the actual improvements looking/how important are they?
3) How soon is this supposed to be coming out?
This information is requested solely out of my desire to be better informed
about MS-DOS.
Jess Hollebytehead@bluemoon.uucp (Bryan Price) (05/17/91)
jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle) writes: ...stuff about apologies deleted... > The other day I was told by a person from the Electronics Shop that MS-DOS > would fix ALL of DOS's problems. Though I sincerely doubt that ANY OS will > ever have all of its problems solved, I have the following questions > regarding MS-DOS 5.0. > > 1) What problems does it solve (this guy said that the 640K limit would > go away completely so that any amount of memory could be used and that > it would have built in "sturdy" multitasking among other things)? DOS 5.0 will work on an 8088 machine. This ensures that it will never blow away the 640K limit. If you are running on a '286 or '386 with extended memory, it will give you a lot more of that memory in 640K free. This is a limitation of a) the 8088, the lowest common denominator, and b) IBM's memory map specification for the PC. > 2) How good are the actual improvements looking/how important are they? The bugs of DOS 4.X have been wiped out. Help is available for every command. There are some additional commands that most people should have been included from the beginning, including unformatting and undeleting files. The DOSSHELL program looks more usable. It's more compatible than DR DOS 5.0 > 3) How soon is this supposed to be coming out? Soon! > This information is requested solely out of my desire to be better informed > about MS-DOS. > > Jess Holle This is from bytehead@bluemoon.uucp bytehead%bluemoon@nstar.rn.com who doesn't have their own obnoxious signature yet