matt@convex.mitek.com (Matthew Lyle) (06/13/91)
Has anybody out there heard of a reason *not* to install the MS-DOS 5.0 upgrade on an IBM PS/2 running the true blue version of PC-DOS?? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Lyle matt@convex.mitek.com OpenConnect Systems Carrollton (Dallas), Texas
tlee@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Timothy Lee) (06/13/91)
In article <1991Jun12.194847.28839@mips.mitek.com> matt@convex.mitek.com (Matthew Lyle) writes: >Has anybody out there heard of a reason *not* to install the MS-DOS 5.0 >upgrade on an IBM PS/2 running the true blue version of PC-DOS?? >-- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Matthew Lyle matt@convex.mitek.com >OpenConnect Systems >Carrollton (Dallas), Texas I tried running the BETA version of DOS 5.0 on my MODEL 70 - 16Mhz and ..... It keeps BOMBING my computer whenever i try to LOAD my CMS external 5.25 High Density FLOPPY...with the program called PS2DRV.COM... It just freezes up.. It also has ALOT of other buggs It can't run alot of older programs... --tim -- Handy Guide To Modern Science: | Timothy Lee 1. If it's green or it wiggles, it's biology. | tlee@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu 2. If it stinks, it's chemistry. | tlee@donald.wslab.hawaii.edu 3. If it doesn't work, it's physics. | tlee@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu
woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S Woan) (06/13/91)
In article <1991Jun12.194847.28839@mips.mitek.com> matt@convex.mitek.com (Matthew Lyle) writes: >Has anybody out there heard of a reason *not* to install the MS-DOS 5.0 >upgrade on an IBM PS/2 running the true blue version of PC-DOS?? Here are a few, though I don't believe them to be that strong. Is there a reason for not going with PCDOS? Anyway, the Egghead $39 (1-800-EGGHEAD for mail order) price is good for either, so cost shouldn't be a factor: 1. Evidently PCDOS is required for RIPL from OS/2 Lan Server, if you use this feature due to the naming of the hidden files. 2. OS/2 2.0 special upgrade is from PCDOS only. Well then again, you still have the old PCDOS license for the version you are currently running. 3. PCDOS upgrade makes UNINSTALL capability optional for those of you tight on disk space and trusting in nature :-) 4. BASIC as with PCDOS versions before is smaller than that of MSDOS due to use of ROM stubs in IBM machines, i.e. casette basic. 5. guaranteed compatibility testing with IBM hardware and direct support from IBM including through IBMLink system. -- +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan woan@cactus.org or woan@austin.vnet.ibm.com + + other email addresses Prodigy: XTCR74A Compuserve: 73530,2537 +
schuster@panix.uucp (Michael Schuster) (06/14/91)
In article <1991Jun12.194847.28839@mips.mitek.com> matt@convex.mitek.com (Matthew Lyle) writes: >Has anybody out there heard of a reason *not* to install the MS-DOS 5.0 >upgrade on an IBM PS/2 running the true blue version of PC-DOS?? I've heard something about PC-DOS using .ADF files for Microchannel cards, but MS-DOS doesn't. I don't have a PS/2, sorry this is so sketchy. But the writer said that a PS/2 owner is better off with PC-DOS 5.0 -- Mike Schuster | -CIS: 70346,1745 -NY Public Access UNIX: schuster@panix.com | -MCI Mail, GENIE: -The Portal (R) System: schuster@cup.portal.com | MSCHUSTER
jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) (06/14/91)
schuster@panix.uucp (Michael Schuster) writes: >In article <1991Jun12.194847.28839@mips.mitek.com> matt@convex.mitek.com (Matthew Lyle) writes: >>Has anybody out there heard of a reason *not* to install the MS-DOS 5.0 >>upgrade on an IBM PS/2 running the true blue version of PC-DOS?? >I've heard something about PC-DOS using .ADF files for Microchannel cards, >but MS-DOS doesn't. I don't have a PS/2, sorry this is so sketchy. But >the writer said that a PS/2 owner is better off with PC-DOS 5.0 The .ADF files are the control files used by the Microchanel setup program on the reference diskette to control the CMOS configuration storage. They have nothing to do with DOS except that the reference diskette itself runs a special version of DOS when you boot it. .ADF files are distributed with the original Microchannel machine reference diskette, and should be included with any Microchannel card you buy. The DOS you run to do interesting work never sees a .ADF file. I've been running a production copy of MS-DOS 5.0 for some time on a variety of machines (Microchannel and ISA) with no problems. All of these machines were running PC-DOS 3.3 prior to installing the MS-DOS 5 upgrade. Joe Morris
dch@uunet.uu.net (Dan C. Horner) (06/15/91)
>>Has anybody out there heard of a reason *not* to install the MS-DOS 5.0 >>upgrade on an IBM PS/2 running the true blue version of PC-DOS?? > >I've heard something about PC-DOS using .ADF files for Microchannel cards, >but MS-DOS doesn't. I don't have a PS/2, sorry this is so sketchy. But >the writer said that a PS/2 owner is better off with PC-DOS 5.0 Just another aside... on the question of .adf files (just .adf mind you) neither dos nor os/2 nor aix use these files... They are used by the internal configuration program of the PS/2 (aka the Reference disk) and then stored in some sort of memory (semistatic ROM ? I dont really remember..) within the PS/2 until the battery dies, is removed, or the configuration is changed... soooooo.... I don't know about DOS 5.0 but thats the scoop on adf files... Dan
bbesler@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Brent H. Besler) (06/17/91)
I just put MS DOS 5.0 on a PS/2 Model 80 running Windows 3.0. I have dos=high, umb in config.sys and am using device=high for all of my device drivers. Everything works normallyt as before.