My 2cents here.
If you look at any of the reliable DOS programs, they generally require
"DOS 3.0 or newer." I guess the authors know.
As for the MS-DOS "undelete" function, I wouldn't ever want to depend on
it if my Norton Utilities has a program specifically to "Recover from
DOS undelete" <G>....
I think the major benchmark I consider is when DOS went from having 320K
Floppies to a whole 360K. I can remember my best friend and I being
absolutely ecstatic about that HUGE increase. I use DOS 5.0 but wish a
lot of the stuff best left to experts had been left out of the newer DOS
versions, the the ability to change file attributes to name the most
important.
And I agree that 4 was garbage. I never let it touch my machines.
l.d.
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:58:40 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 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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