[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> But DOS 3.3x couldn't handle partitions > 32 MB. My first computer was
> 386 SX-16 in 1990, hard drive 40 MB in one partition with MS-DOS 4. Also,
> MS-DOS 4 introduced an Extended Open/Create function, int 21h function 6Ch.
> Any program that uses this function won't run in DOS <= 3.3x. Why would you
> want DOS 3.31 and not 4 or 5?
Hi Thomas;
DOS 3.30 can't recognize partitions > 32Mb but 3.31 CAN.
Why use DOS 3.31 (if you can find it) ?
Because it is a HECK of a lot smaller than DOS 5 and DOS 4 is too buggy
to use at all. If you use a good memory manager like QEMM, you can load
parts of 3.3 high and will definitely end up with MORE low memory than
using any other DOS. Later DOSs, even with HIGH,UMB leave less low memory.
And I find the confirmation messages from DOS 6+ drive me NUTS. Just like
Windows. If I want to delete or overwrite a file, I want the damn thing to
DO it. How do you turn the Yes, No, All, Overwrite or whatever off ??
Why would you want to use software written so poorly that it won't work with
DOS 3.3 - the workhorse of the pre-UMB era ?
- Clarence Verge
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