From: spam AT 127 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 1 (Bernard Murray, PhD)
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Subject: Re: MS Dos 1
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 15:41:12 -0700
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In article <38451FFF DOT BF35BD99 AT maths DOT unine DOT ch>,
gautier DOT demontmollin AT maths DOT unine DOT ch wrote:

I previously wrote:
> > What do you mean "much more stable"?
 
> Precisely: than Novell DOS 7 (even with update 15).

I shall check this out.  Thank you.

> The NWCDEX seems to have improved.

The last Caldera update was identical with the Novell version
so hopefully the new guys have fixed it.

> NWCache is inefficient on current HDs,

Yes (7 Mb cache lmit).  Does it cache CDROMs now?

> EMM386' XMS module sees only 64MB, but you can load HIMEM.SYS
> from MS-DOS 7.x before loading EMM386.

Aha!  Thanks again (although I'd prefer a Microsoft-free
environment).

   Bernard

PS: (and more on topic)  The original IBM PC I used in the lab
in 1985 (and now in my mother's attic) came with PC DOS 2.1.

-- 
Bernard P. Murray, PhD
bpmurray at cgl . ucsf . edu
Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF