Re: [Freedos-devel] The FreeDOS Orphanage

[Liam P. <lp...@gm...>]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 02:27, Steve Nickolas <uso...@bu...> wrote:
>
> The division actually happened earlier - after 5.0.

So Wikipedia said. I have not personally seen PC DOS after 4 but
before 6.3, so I can't say from direct personal knowledge.

>   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

[Nod]

>  the difference between FC/RAMDRIVE and COMP/VDISK.

Could you elaborate on that, please, just to satisfy my curiosity?

> 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.

That I did not know! Fascinating. A little-regarded but very useful
tool, Interlink. I think I wrote somewhere that it still works with
NT, if you just run one end in a DOS command prompt (can't find it
now, though.)

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