February 10, 2021 9:39 AM, "Adam Nielsen via Freedos-user" <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Is it worth pointing out that every version of MS-DOS, including the > DOS-based Windows recovery boot disks, have included a utility out of > the box to extract bare files from their "packages"?
Even though it's a good idea to include a decompression utility, in fact Microsoft did not have one bundled with their DOS until version 6.0. Early versions of MS' DOS did not have anything compressed and didn't even have an installer. Digital Research's DOS came up first with an installer and pretty much everything. Microsoft was always playing catch up with them and always had the DOS with the least features at every point in time. MS' DOS is the cheap consumer DOS. Not really the holy grail of DOS. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
