From: "daSilva, Joe" 

Hi Riv,

I haven't experimented much with PC-DOS, however I understand
that it offers better memory management than the MS-DOS family.

The interest in PC-DOS 7.1 (as with MS-DOS 7.1) is the support
for FAT32 and LBA.

The most free conventional memory I have achieved was using
DR-DOS 7.02/7.03, however that didn't include FAT32 and LBA
support. There is an enhanced version of DR-DOS 7.01 that
does (see http://www.drdosprojects.de/) but there will be some
memory penalty in so doing. If you experiment with this and
with PC-DOS 7.1, I'm sure we here would be interested in
hearing your results.

Joe.

> 

Joe daSilva
Senior Electronic Engineer
Phone: +61 2 9690 7309

-----Original Message-----
> From: RiverWind [mailto:riverwind{at}shellworld.net]
> Sent: Thursday, 29 January 2009 11:23 PM
> To: opendos{at}delorie.com
> Subject: RE: Looking For IBM or OPEN DOS Inhancements
> 
> 
> Joe,
> 
> I sincerely appreciate yor help. There doesn't seem to be 
> very many dos 
> users out there anymore, so it is a bit refreshing to run 
> into one every 
> now and then. Might you know of any other versions of dos 
> that are more 
> dynamic than PCDOS? I mean, with more memory and multi-tasking 
> capabilities.
> 
> Regards,
> Riv
> 
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, daSilva, Joe wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:27:08 +1100
> > To: opendos{at}delorie.com
> > From: "daSilva, Joe" 
> > Subject: RE: Looking For IBM or OPEN DOS Inhancements
> > 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Well, I found PC-DOS 7.1 available within another
> > package, see :
> >
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ArachneDevelopment/message/3256
> >
> > The original link seems to have changed to :
> >
> > 
> http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisp
> lay?lndocid=MIGR-53564&brandind=5000008
> >
> > Seems what you should download is titled :
> > "ibm_sw_sgtk_1_3_07_anyos_anycpu.zip"
> >
> > Hope that helps.
> >
> > Joe.
> >
> >
> >>
> >
> > Joe daSilva
> > Senior Electronic Engineer
> > Landis+Gyr
> > Phone: +61 2 9690 7309
> > joe.dasilva{at}landisgyr.com
> > http://www.landisgyr.com/
> >
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> > -----Original Message-----
> >> From: RiverWind [mailto:riverwind{at}shellworld.net]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, 31 December 2008 11:03 AM
> >> To: Open Dos Discussion Group
> >> Subject: Looking For IBM or OPEN DOS Inhancements
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi There,
> >>
> >>       I have been a user of IBMDOS ever since the winter of two-
> >> thousand. I have found it to be more reliable than MSDOS in some
> >> ways, and inferior in others.
> >>
> >>       I have two primary issues with which I could use and 
> certainly
> >> would appreciate help. First of all, Ramboost isn't allocating
> >> enough memory resources to allow me to use more than one utility at
> >> a time, such as invoking the shell feature of one program so that
> >> I can use another utility.
> >>
> >>       Are there more current versions of IBMDOS than the two-
> >> thousand version? If not, then are there any memory allocation or
> >> even multi-tasking utilities that one can purchase through IBM or
> >> some other vender?
> >>
> >>       Again, any and all help I can get from you good people would
> >> be most highly appreciated.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Ray Jackson
> >>
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> >>
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> >>
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