After having to rebuild my harddrive once too often with both doublespace
(MSDOS 6.0) and drivespace (MSDOS 6.22), I quit using them.
Scandisk also scragged files it was supposed to repair and made too many
harddrive messes.
There seems to be some measure of incompatibility in the utilities that
come with MSDOS 6+. Perhaps my legacy equipment is not cherry enough.
Perhaps when Microsoft adjusted those utilities from their original
forms, they didn't get a perfect fit.
DRDOS 7.02 is far more stable and internally consistant on my machines.
Although I can't speak from personal experience, I have heard the same
about PC DOS.
For that matter IBM DOS 5.0 was very good, also. Apparently IBM made
some improvements to MSDOS 5.0. For a legacy DOS it is just about the
best IMHO. There are still some ancient PS2s chugging away happily on
IBM DOS 5.0 with absolutely no complaints. You can still find them in
the corners of many IT shops doing their simply tasks, and nobody
notices, until some manager decides to upgrade them to much higher
maintenance equipment with "modern" software versions.
End
Peace
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