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DOS 6.0 vs 7.0 Beta

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Name: avp_micro
Date: September 25, 2005 at 17:46:49 Pacific
OS: 3.11
CPU/Ram: enough
Comment:

I managed to get a copy of DOS 7.00 BETA. Is there any major difference between 6.0 and 7.00B ?

Thanks for your input.



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Response Number 1
Name: name
Date: September 25, 2005 at 18:22:58 Pacific
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What do you mean""DOS 7.00 BETA""

Who made this?

Microsoft never made a "DOS 7.00"


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Response Number 2
Name: avp_micro
Date: September 25, 2005 at 20:50:42 Pacific
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Well if microsoft never released it then i gusse its ok to give copys out considering it "abandonware" and not under copyright.


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Response Number 3
Name: jboy
Date: September 25, 2005 at 20:58:37 Pacific
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MS-DOS Version 7 (C)Copyright 1981-1994 Microsoft Corp Licensed Material - Property of Microsoft All rights reserved

Includes DoubleSpace.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology


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Response Number 4
Name: avp_micro
Date: September 25, 2005 at 21:05:11 Pacific
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I didn't relize it was rare or not released i got a whole bunch of operating systems off my buddy about a year back. tell me if any of these are rare.

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Response Number 5
Name: avp_micro
Date: September 25, 2005 at 21:08:37 Pacific
Reply:

alright well maybe Murphy was an optimist can tell me the differance between 6.0 and 7.00b?


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Response Number 6
Name: name
Date: September 25, 2005 at 22:12:34 Pacific
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""Well if microsoft never released it then i gusse its ok to give copys out considering it "abandonware" and not under copyright.""


There's no such thing, and, I can assure you, that EVERYTHING that Microshaft came out with is perpetualy copyrighted.


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Response Number 7
Name: plainandsimple
Date: September 25, 2005 at 23:51:30 Pacific
Reply:

MS-DOS 6.22 was the last standalone version
Fat12/16 support and 8.3 file names

Windows 95/95A/95 OSR2 had a version of MS-DOS as a subsytem equivelent to version 7.0x basically the same as 6.22 except can access more than 64MB memory and many other tweaks.

Windows 95 OSR2.1/2.5 & 98 had a version of MS-DOS as a subsytem equivelent to version 7.1x basically the same as 7.0x except added FAT32 support and many other tweaks.

After 6.22 M$ never released a standalone retail version and as quite rightly is stated to use any version of M$-DOS/Windows you require the appropriate licence.

FAT32 Support in Windows 95



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Response Number 8
Name: jboy
Date: September 26, 2005 at 10:11:43 Pacific
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Sure, 622 was the last version released/sold.

M$-DOS 7 beta exists, and the timeline puts it between v6.20 & v6.22 - don't believe there's any advantage over 622, and since it is a beta version, may be buggy

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology


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Response Number 9
Name: dominicus
Date: September 28, 2005 at 20:38:10 Pacific
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Well, it is for all intents and purposes a 32 bit version of dos 6.2...comes with the very last version of dosshell, too.
I used it for about two years until there was some kind of incompatibility (i can't remember which, now)- but overall, it is remarkably bug-free...
only problem is it only likes windows 3.1 as a shell..it's hard coded to boot windows automatically..in order to get it to boot to just a dos prompt..you have to enter "autowin off" at the prompt..and repeat the command every time it starts trying to boot into windows again.
So you better make sure you have the full Dos 7.0 beta..with the autowin.exe or autowin.com..can't quite remember which...


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Response Number 10
Name: jboy
Date: September 28, 2005 at 22:23:27 Pacific
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Looks like AUTOWIN.COM

* Make sure your AUTOEXEC.BAT does not load Windows. You have to load Windows with the AutoWin-command: AUTOWIN ON
AUTOWIN OFF

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Response Number 11
Name: XpUser
Date: September 29, 2005 at 13:59:32 Pacific
Reply:

Maybe he meant IBM PC DOS Version 7?

i_XpUser


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Response Number 12
Name: expert01
Date: September 29, 2005 at 18:28:26 Pacific
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Note: If someone owns a copy of software they gain rights to all previous versions of the software. If you own XP, you can legally use 2000, NT, ME, 98, 95, 3.1, and DOS.


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Response Number 13
Name: jboy
Date: September 29, 2005 at 18:58:37 Pacific
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Who told you that??

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Response Number 14
Name: jboy
Date: September 29, 2005 at 23:02:16 Pacific
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.. anyhow, fairy tales aside, I'm pretty much convinced this 'beta' is a (somewhat) elaborate hoax.

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Response Number 15
Name: plainandsimple
Date: September 30, 2005 at 01:19:06 Pacific
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M$ License for home users in a nutshell means you have the right to use the software you have a license for, you do not really own it.

Beta, shareware, warez, unsupported are all poppycock, everything has a license for use even Open Source.............

Have you got PCDOS2000 yet ?
http://www.provantage.com/buy-22019015-ibm-software-pc-dos-2000-shopping.htm


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Response Number 16
Name: veganalex
Date: September 30, 2005 at 14:56:30 Pacific
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msdos 7.0beta, has been extracted from windows 95 or 98, i can't remember where it is on the net, but it was not an official release by m$.

REMEMBER - win95&98 are only GUIs for msdos, basically it's just msdos 7, with win 95 ontop.


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Response Number 17
Name: jboy
Date: September 30, 2005 at 18:02:57 Pacific
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Wow - *thanks*! Win95 runs ontop of DOS - that is quite a revelation

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology


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Response Number 18
Name: plainandsimple
Date: October 1, 2005 at 08:37:36 Pacific
Reply:

JHC it is 10 years since W95 came out in MG 1995 and just realised it is a DOS GUI, bless my cotton socks!!!!!!!!!


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