Reply 20 of 33, by elianda
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I would say MS-DOS 5 set a baseline and MS-DOS 6.x was just an evolution. Most features MS-DOS 6.x brought were already common with MS-DOS 5 and third party programs. Just think about QEMM, Stacker/DoubleDisk, Norton Sysinfo/Speeddisk/DiskDoctor.
So the new features in MS-DOS 6 were not really new and most people had the third party software running already before.
Some tools that were in MS-DOS 6 were stripped down version bought from other companies, like defrag. So at the release of MS-DOS 6 the actual third party software was still better than the tools that came with DOS.
A lot of people that were running such a MS-DOS 5 installation were reluctant with upgrading to DOS 6, since there was no real gain.
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