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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Subject: Re: Install MS-DOS 5.0 on PS/2 w/PC-DOS 4.01??
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Date: 13 Jun 91 14:31:00 GMT

tlee@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Timothy Lee) writes:

>In article <1991Jun12.194847.28839@mips.mitek.com> matt@convex.mitek.com (Matthew Lyle) writes:
>>Has anybody out there heard of a reason *not* to install the MS-DOS 5.0 
>>upgrade on an IBM PS/2 running the true blue version of PC-DOS??

> I tried running the BETA version of DOS 5.0 on my MODEL 70 - 16Mhz
>   and ..... It keeps BOMBING my computer whenever i try to LOAD my 
>   CMS external 5.25 High Density FLOPPY...with the program called
>    PS2DRV.COM... It just freezes up.. It also has ALOT of other buggs
>    It can't run alot of older programs...

What programs failed, and what type of symptoms did they exhibit?  Also,
what beta level did you have?  The last beta I tried was 409; I had no
problems with the 50-odd packages I tried it with.  (I didn't try it with
the CMS drivers, because I junked that box last year...it's a long story.)

In fact, the beta worked too well: the shrink-wrapped copy of DOS5 blew
File Command II out of the water even though it worked fine on beta 409.
That's the only program I've been running which won't work with DOS5.

Despite this, however, users should READ the README files on the DOS 
diskettes.  There are a number of programs which need some TLC until
the vendor changes them to work cleanly with DOS5.  Examples are PKLITE,
1-2-3 R3, and others.

Joe
