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From: nina@panix.uucp (Nina Yuan)
Subject: Obscure MS-DOS 5.0 problems (was Re: Are Windows 4.0/DOS 5.1 in sight?)
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.175117.3054@panix.uucp>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 17:51:17 GMT
References: <13457.2860379d@amherst.bitnet> <JMERRILL.91Jun25144452@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY

In article <JMERRILL.91Jun25144452@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jason Merrill) writes:
>I strongly doubt there are any significant bugs between Windows 3 and DOS
>5.0; after all, they are both MS products, and DOS 5 had the largest beta
>testing program MS (or anyone else?) has ever used.  Problems are starting
>to crop up with DOS 5, but these are obscure incompatibilities like Plus
>Hardcards not working properly on 6Mhz IBM AT's (and only 6Mhz IBM AT's)
>under DOS 5.  Anything Joe Average User, or even Joe Average Power User, is

Anyone have any further comments on this?  I have a 6MHz IBM AT and a Plus
Hardcard (52 meg Hardcard II XL) and am about to go to my friendly Egghead
to get a copy of DOS 5.0.  I've been following all the threads here on
DOS 5, and this is the first time I've heard of this problem.


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Nina H. Yuan            
Harvard College                            PANIX -- Public Access Unix of NY
yuan1@husc.harvard.edu                     nina@panix.com
