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Name: Owen
Date: May 2, 2000 at 12:59:19 Pacific
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Whats the difference between MS-DOS, PC-DOS, and DR-DOS? Is one better than the others? Here's another question, if a game specifies "MS-DOS 5", can you use PC-DOS or DR-DOS?



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Name: john westerman
Date: May 2, 2000 at 14:26:23 Pacific
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there's not much difference between the three, although some applications and utilities will detect DR-DOS as MS-DOS 3.1
way back when DOS was popular, Micorosft licenced version 3.1 out to various people, hence the different versions.
In reality though, there is no difference between versions although siome games are quirky and do need the microsoft version.


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Name: tim
Date: May 2, 2000 at 17:50:23 Pacific
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any one know were i can download dos for free? i need it cuz i found a ibm 8550 in the trash and one of my 3 dos disk don't work


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Response Number 3
Name: The Pirate
Date: May 2, 2000 at 17:56:57 Pacific
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Different manufacturers

DR-DOS = Digital Research
PC-DOS = Personal Computer. Developed by MS for IBM
MS-DOS = no prizes. Came after PC-DOS


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