Re: [Freedos-devel] The FreeDOS Orphanage

2021-12-01 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Wed, 1 Dec 2021, Liam Proven wrote: Fair. For me, I left the IBM reseller that was my first job and moved to a much smaller company, so I stopped working with a mixture of PC DOS and MS-DOS and switched to mostly MS-DOS, with a little DR DOS. Meanwhile I started out with PC DOS 3.2, and

Re: [Freedos-devel] The FreeDOS Orphanage

2021-12-01 Thread Liam Proven
On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 17:40, Steve Nickolas wrote: > MS-DOS had FC (written in C in 3.x and later) and RAMDRIVE, while IBM had > COMP (still written in ASM; simpler and not as powerful) and VDISK. I see -- thanks! > 5.0 had both. (!) > I'm not sure too many people know much about PC DOS

Re: [Freedos-devel] The FreeDOS Orphanage

2021-12-01 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Wed, 1 Dec 2021, Liam Proven wrote: On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 02:27, Steve Nickolas wrote: The division actually happened earlier - after 5.0. So Wikipedia said. I have not personally seen PC DOS after 4 but before 6.3, so I can't say from direct personal knowledge. I have a boxed copy of

Re: [Freedos-devel] The FreeDOS Orphanage

2021-12-01 Thread Liam Proven
On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 02:27, Steve Nickolas wrote: > > The division actually happened earlier - after 5.0. So Wikipedia said. I have not personally seen PC DOS after 4 but before 6.3, so I can't say from direct personal knowledge. > From 3.2 to the > second issue of 5.0 (and in fact the