Re: [Freedos-devel] The FreeDOS Orphanage

[Steve N. <uso...@bu...>]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, Liam Proven wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 22:35, Steve Nickolas <uso...@bu...> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, Deposite Pirate wrote:
>>
>>> PC-DOS is also strictly better than MS-DOS. Don't know of a valid
>>> reason for anyone to bother with the latter anymore.
>>
>> For the most part, PC DOS *is* MS-DOS.
>
> Well, I agree with both of you. :-D
>
> Up until the last version of MS-DOS, 6.22, they were largely identical, yes.

The division actually happened earlier - after 5.0.  From 3.2 to the 
second issue of 5.0 (and in fact the second issue of MS-DOS 3.1) the two 
releases are effectively the same, apart from MS-DOS getting a few things 
before PC DOS, and the difference between FC/RAMDRIVE and COMP/VDISK.

Although one feature did migrate from PC DOS to MS-DOS: Interlnk, which 
appeared first in PC DOS 5.02, and then MS-DOS 6.

-uso.