I know this can be done via F5/F8 in MS-DOS 6.x but I can't seem to find a way in 5.0.. Internet search would suggest holding down SHIFT should work, but it doesn't?
I think you can use CTRL + C when it starts MS-DOS. It will ask you to run/step-through or skip config.sys and autotexec.bat.
PS... ah DR DOS... my friend back in the 90s was so convinced that it's called "Doctor DOS" and that's how it should be read...
To this day I still say Doctor DOS and Mister BIOS..
so do I, nothing anyone could say would convince me that the two respective companies didn't intend their initials to emulate an honorific when choosing to name their products that way
That's nice but if it doesn't run Windows properly it's no good. Everybody should just run Microsoft software everywhere. It's safer here.
Where the hell did you get that from? Windows 3.x runs fine on DR Dos, IBM Dos, PTS Dos, Real/32 and more. Some even added enhancements like the PMCIA support in IBM Dos. Dos development didn't stop at the release of Win95.
MS modified the Win 3.x files so it wouldn't run properly on specific versions of concurrent DOS back in the day:
The code was disabled on Windows 3.1 release. I can assure you Windows 3.1 worked fine under DR Dos 6. I did it. Digital Research released some wee patches to tidy things up as well. Just in case it was enabled.
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There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s. Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
PS... ah DR DOS... my friend back in the 90s was so convinced that it's called "Doctor DOS" and that's how it should be read...
To this day I still say Doctor DOS and Mister BIOS..
"To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods" - Robert A. Heinlein
Source: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/655233
😉
"Time, it seems, doesn't flow. For some it's fast, for some it's slow.
In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel
I love these educational discussions. The mods have had the sense to pin the thread as well which is excellent. It might educate some of the young'ns what it was really like back then. Not some imagined or revisionist account.
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s. Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
I know this can be done via F5/F8 in MS-DOS 6.x but I can't seem to find a way in 5.0.. Internet search would suggest holding down SHIFT should work, but it doesn't?
I think you can use CTRL + C when it starts MS-DOS. It will ask you to run/step-through or skip config.sys and autotexec.bat.
No it doesn't. Tried it a couple of times on my 286. Ctr-C just terminates a command, ie stops it from running as does Ctrl-Break according to the Microsoft produced MS Dos 5 Users Guide and Reference dated 1991.
Quite handy having these manuals.
Note the stunning amount of new features MS Dos 5 included.
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s. Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
PS: I've forgot to mention. Now that I think of it, I did use a Digital Research DOS back in the days - DOS Plus.
That was a CP/M-86 in disguise, however. Anyway, it can run DOS 2.x programs, so it belong to DOS family.
"Time, it seems, doesn't flow. For some it's fast, for some it's slow.
In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel
Dos Plus not CP/M-86. It was a totally different product specifically design to run Dos applications. Aka it was Dos.
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s. Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
"Time, it seems, doesn't flow. For some it's fast, for some it's slow.
In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel
IMHO There's no reason to hold on to DOS 5 except for nostalgia and a few hacks.
MS-DOS 6.0 pretty much comes with all the DOS 5 utilities and has the same kernal, even.
Except for that Wina20.386 file which is required for Win 3.0 Enhanced Mode, maybe.
"Time, it seems, doesn't flow. For some it's fast, for some it's slow.
In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel
I use MS Dos 5 on my 286 and am quite happy with it. Ideally going by the above logic you should be running PC Dos 2000. Frees up more conventional memory than MS Dos 6.X does and can be run on XT class systems
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s. Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
I use MS Dos 5 on my 286 and am quite happy with it. Ideally going by the above logic you should be running PC Dos 2000. Frees up more conventional memory than MS Dos 6.X does and can be run on XT class systems
PC-DOS 2000 or MS-DOS 7.1 (the CDU distro) if you need LBA support
I use MS Dos 5 on my 286 and am quite happy with it. Ideally going by the above logic you should be running PC Dos 2000. Frees up more conventional memory than MS Dos 6.X does and can be run on XT class systems
PC-DOS 2000 or MS-DOS 7.1 (the CDU distro) if you need LBA support
PC-DOS 2k is my favorite
Yeah Roy and Co.s CDU version comes as a two 1.44meg distro and disk two is optional. I like it much better than FreeDos.
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s. Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
"Time, it seems, doesn't flow. For some it's fast, for some it's slow.
In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s. Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
IMHO There's no reason to hold on to DOS 5 except for nostalgia and a few hacks.
MS-DOS 6.0 pretty much comes with all the DOS 5 utilities and has the same kernal, even.
Except for that Wina20.386 file which is required for Win 3.0 Enhanced Mode, maybe.
I thought I remembered seeing a utility that could interject itself between the VBR and IO.SYS to allow config selection on boot. Can't find it right now, so maybe such a thing doesn't exist.