Hi, Bjorn,
I spent some time looking at my PC-DOS 6.1 and 6.3 stuff but could find no
text files detailing or listing specific changes and improvements between
the two versions. PC-DOS 6.1 came out around June of 1993, and there was an
update disk made near the end of September, 1993 for disk 1 of the five disk
set. PC-DOS 6.3 came out near the end of December, 1993 and updates and
problem fixes were made as late as late December of 1994 to that version,
even though PC-DOS 7.0 was released with original file dates of November 17,
1994. Updates and Y2K patches were released for PC-DOS 7.0 as late as June,
1998. PC-DOS 2000 came out in November, 1999.
I remember that PC-DOS 6.3 had quite a number of minor fixes to many of its
executable files over version 6.1, most notably some major improvements to
the SuperStor disk compression program. Of course, at its fixed best,
SuperStor never even rivaled Stacker 3.0, a subset of which is in Novell DOS
7.0 and in all versions up to 7.03 of Caldera's Open-DOS and DR-DOS. The
Stacker version 4.0, the full program, in PC-DOS 7.00 and later is the best
disk compression program of them all.
You would definitely be much better off using PC-DOS 6.3 over PC-DOS 6.1. I
never used the SuperStor disk compressor, but I did use PC-DOS 6.1 and later
6.3 for a number of years and was quite satisfied with it. I liked PC-DOS
6.3 over any MS-DOS 6.XX version, including the May, 1994 released, MS-DOS
6.22.
PC-DOS 6.3 also added support for more tape backup drives, enhanced PC-Card
support for laptops, especially IBM's own ThinkPads, and more features were
added to the editor. Some tweaks were possibly also made to the ramsetup
and ramboost memory management programs. PC-DOS 6.3 is definitely stable,
except for that SuperStor disk compression program, wich wouldn't have been
any better had you gotten it from SuperStor directly for $79 or whatever it
cost as opposed to having it free in IBM's PC-DOS. Dumping that SuperStor
program in favor of a complete implementation of the latest version of the
Stacker disk compression program was one of the best improvements for PC-DOS
7.0.
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