cctalk Digest, Vol 23, Issue 75

[Diego Rodriguez]

> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:31:21 +0100
> From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: DR DOS 5.0
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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> On 7/24/05, Diego Rodriguez <dieymir at yahoo.es> wrote:
> > Anybody knows something about its history ??
> > I have installation disks with files dated 6/1990 and also a boot
> disk
> > with some files dated in 2/1991, I know that several bug fixing
> > versions exist, but Which is the last ??
> > 
> > I remembered it when I was reading all that Windows Vista
> (LongHorn)
> > stuff. Seems that M$ is using 'vaporware' again to distract
> attention
> > from Intel Mac OS X much like they did with MS-DOS 5.0 and DR DOS
> 5.0.
> 
> A bit, but not much about internal versions and so on. I've
> contributed a fair bit to the Wikipedia article on it - that might be
> a good place to look and discuss it.
> 
I also have a Spanish version dated 12/90, some utils have been
updated, e.g.
- MEM (1.00 -> 1.01) now displays HMA contents.
- CHKDSK (6.14 -> 6.16) ?? 
- EMM386.SYS (1.2 -> 1.21) Windows 3.0 works in extended mode.
... probably some more, but I didn't check all of them.



		
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