MS-DOS version (was: What's best to do?? classically speaking

From: Vance Dereksen <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Fri Jun 22 12:55:45 2001

I liked PC-DOS 4.00. 8-)

Peace... Sridhar

On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Jim Strickland wrote:

> > Prior to 5.00, MS-DOS was, IN THEORY, available only from OEMs. Yes,
> > there was such a giant gray market that nobody noticed the restriction.
> > There appears to have been a 10 year non-competition contract between
> > MICROS~1 and IBM, wherein MICROS~1 could sell to OEMs, but could not sell
> > DOS as a retail product. 5.00 was the first version where DOS was
> > available legitimately as a retail product. It was "NEW and IMPROVED!"
> > The "NEW and IMPROVED" consisted mostly of bug fixes to 4.00, plus
> > availability from MICROS~1.
> >
> > NOTE: 5.00 has met the 10 year rule for over a month now. Windoze 3.10
> > has 2 more months to go, even for BETA.
>
> Ah yes, DOS 5.0. The last time I felt I got my money's worth from
> a Microsoft product. It was SO cool when you were used to whatever
> 3.3 copies you'd pilfered from wherever. Win95 came close to this
> only when fresh out of the box installed with all protected mode
> drivers. It was all downhill from there. I bought DOS 5.0
> from one of the campus computing organizations at my grad school.
> It was expensive, if memory serves. But worth it.
>
> ---
> Jim Strickland
> jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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