> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 19:17:32 +0200
> From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: XT clone?
>>> Important Note- there were serious problems with MS-DOS 6.20, you
>>> should probably upgrade to MS-DOS 6.22 or something else like
>>> FreeDOS or DR-DOS 7.02.
> And where would you pick up anything but DR-DOS 7.03 ? I know I can always
> look at my M:\Backup but does who haven't downloaded it yet?
Last I heard, the MSDOS 6.0 -> 6.22 "STEPUP.EXE" update was still available
on the microsoft site. There was a big legal stink when Microsoft was
found to have stolen important sections of DBLSPACE from Stac Electronics
- so they had to make it available, FREE, to everyone.
>> What sort of problems does DOS6.0 suffer with? A couple of
>> my friends use it. I like to prevent any disaster they may end up
>> with.
The biggest problem with all DOS 6 versions was the use of DBLSPACE or
its replacement. As long as you didn't use these disk compressors,
everything would work fine.
DBLSPACE would eventually result in a disk crash disaster, no matter how
careful you were. ( I defended it for more than two years, assuming that
those whose systems crashed were doing something wrong. They weren't.)
I found one other big difference which most folks overlooked. The DOS HELP
files for ver 6.0 had a good section on the DEBUG command; version 6.22
removed it.
> I don't recall ever hearing any problems with MS-DOS 6 (or 6.0 as it was
> later called) 6.20 lacked doublespace 6.21 had a few minor bugfixes that
> was introduced in 6.20 and 6.22 had a new doublespace.
Both are equally bad. Sooner or later, the compressed disks will crash.
It isn't that big a loss if dblspace is used only on floppies - but using
it on hard disks is very dangerous without complete UNCOMPRESSED daily
backups. ( A 20MB HD takes up 35-40 floppies for backup.)
Besides - dblspace improved actual amount you could put on a hard disk by
only a small amount, unless most of your files were plain ASCII text.
Zipped files, images, etc. would normally go on the disk only slightly
smaller ( 1% ) than the original - because they already were compressed.
- John T.
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