12 May
2010
12 May
'10
2:48 p.m.
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Liam Proven wrote:
Jos: for my money, MS-DOS 3.3 was the classic version
for the original
PC. With <=640K of RAM, no full-function version of DOS offers as much
functionality in as little conventional RAM. All the later versions
are bigger but normally hide bits of themselves in the HMA or UMBs to
maximise free base memory, which is no help if you only have base
memory and nothing else.
My personal favorite is MS-DOS 6.2x. "Only version of MS-DOS where the
highest priority in the upgrades was to make it more reliable."
DR-DOS 3.4 might be worth a look if you can find it,
but it's obscure.
"Ahh, but that is the predecessor to MS-DOS" (OK, common ancestor)