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Re: A stupid DOS question.....
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Tue, 8 Dec 1998 16:29:31 GMT
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On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 22:01:42 GMT, "Richard Dee"
<richard.dee@nospam.virgin.net> wrote:

IBM's PC DOS version 6.3....
how many diskettes came with that release?
2 sets at work thrown in the rubbish, unused, which of course
I rescued. (Might come in handy, you never know! & I no longer
have my original DOS disks....).
One has 3 disks, the other had 5, so obviously there are at
least 5...........

PC-DOS?!? 6.3 ?!?!

Ewwww.

There. Now that that's off my chest: Just get a set of 6.22s -
available prolly even legally very cheap. And they're only 3 disks,
and a better dos than pc-dos :)

Jasper



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  Re: A stupid DOS question.....
 
(...) Didn't PC-DOS have a bunch of really cool features that MS-DOS never had, such as reliable task-switching and reliable disk compression, among other things? I'm always looking out for good replacements for MS-DOS, from the 4DOS replacement (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: A stupid DOS question.....
 
(...) But not as cheap as legally free........ 5 would be about right then..... (26 years ago, 8-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  A stupid DOS question.....
 
IBM's PC DOS version 6.3.... how many diskettes came with that release? 2 sets at work thrown in the rubbish, unused, which of course I rescued. (Might come in handy, you never know! & I no longer have my original DOS disks....). One has 3 disks, (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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