There are some who dislike Microsoft so much that they may be missing
advantages of the MS-DOS 7 that comes with WIN98. I am trying to switch
from DOS 6.22 to DOS 7, have not tested everything yet, but so far am
impressed:
1) DOS7 supports FAT32 partitions. I don't believe that the non-MS DOS's
do that, and certainly not DOS 6X.
2) DOS7 has native support for LS-120 so drive A can be a multi-megabyte,
bootable emergency recovery disk with every utility you would ever need.
perhaps WIN3 or even a cut down version of WIN98 would run from the LS-120.
To be bootable, BIOS has to support booting from LS.
3) I haven't tried it yet but it appears that if the BIOS supports
booting from CD-ROM, then DOS 7 on the CD will boot. That's a 650 MB
CD boot disk. Do any of the non-MS DOS's support LS or CD booting?
4) A previous message from someone said that DOS 7 did not recognize a
5.25" disk in drive B. I tried that on my old PC and it worked fine.
So, does anyone have or know of test results to show that DOS 7 won't work
as well as DOS 6 (speed, memory usage, etc) or is not compatible with
programs that DOS 6 runs?
Thanks, Barry.
