On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 22:35, Steve Nickolas <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, Deposite Pirate wrote: > > > PC-DOS is also strictly better than MS-DOS. Don't know of a valid > > reason for anyone to bother with the latter anymore. > > For the most part, PC DOS *is* MS-DOS.
Well, I agree with both of you. :-D Up until the last version of MS-DOS, 6.22, they were largely identical, yes. But when MS discontinued DOS in favour of Win95, IBM started to differentiate its offering. PC-DOS 6 started to diverge. It never had DoubleSpace/DriveSpace, so there was no need for 6.2/6.21/6.22. It dropped QBasic and the MS full-screen editor, replaced with the IBM E editor. PC DOS 6.3 had SuperStor instead. PC DOS 7 replaced BASIC with IBM Rexx. PC DOS 7.01 was Y2K compliant and was sold as PC DOS 2000. PC DOS 7.1 is distributed with the Serverguide Scripting Toolkit and has LBA+ disk support (that is, EIDE >8GB) and FAT32. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_DOS#PC_DOS_6.3 The former IBM project lead for 7.x has his own site with a lot of info: https://sites.google.com/site/pcdosretro/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: [email protected] ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: [email protected] Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
