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|    Ed Vance to TOM WALKER    |
|    Windows 8    |
|    30 Jul 12 23:56:00    |
      TW>EV>My first MS-DOS computer had version 5.0.              TW>EV>I never bought any of the version 6.x's although I did find a box in a       TW>EV>Salvation Army Thrift Store that had the CD and Book for IBM PC-DOS 7.0       TW>EV>that I bought for $5.00US.              TW>My First MS-DOS Version was PC-DOS 2.x. Then I mover up to Compaq 3.3       TW>becasue it cound see a 30 mag hard drive witrhout partitioning. From       TW>there I mover int5o DR-DOS 5.x and then 6.x but was forced into MS-DOS       TW>becasue of Microslimes dirty trick they pulled on DR. They shared teh       TW>prel;ease code so DR-DOS woudl wiork with Windows 3.1 as I recall but       TW>then made a change in the final release that made DR-DOS Incompatable.       TW>DR quickly put out a patch utu it was to late, The damage was done       TW>nd the aTrick killed then in the DOS business.              Tom,              At work the XT had ITT-DOS 2.11 with the manuals, so I tried some of the       examples to learn DOS.              I remember 3.3 having something to do with 30MB hard drives.       That ITT XT came with a 10MB HD, I thought it was nicer that saving       everything on floppy disks as I did at home with the C=64.              I remember a bit of DR-DOS and NOVELL-DOS but went with MS-DOS5 when I       had the compitable built in 1994.                      * SLMR 2.1a #T348 * I'd think twice about using this tagline.       --- SBBSecho 2.12-Linux        * Origin: telnet & http://cco.ath.cx - Dial-Up: 502-875-8938 (1:2320/105.1)    |
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