Subj : Re: Ms-Dos 4.0 Open-Sourced
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu May 02 2024 09:16:00

-=> MIKE POWELL wrote to SPECTRE <=-

 MP> Yeah.  I have a vague recollection that maybe there were some things
 MP> about it that were supposed to work better with Windows 3.x but I may
 MP> be way off on that.  Since I didn't run Windows I didn't bother
 MP> upgrading until 5.0 came out.

I found a good web site that talked about MSDOS 4.0 - the big selling
points were hard drives over 32 mb and memory management tools, but the
downsides were incompatibility with some controllers and data
corruption with the then new memory managers. It wasn't marketed well,
either.

I didn't have any drives over 32mb until DOS 5.0 came out, don't think I
ever used DOS 4.

https://dfarq.homeip.net/why-not-use-ms-dos-4-0/


 
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