SE> So that leaves us with MS-DOS from Mr. Bill and PC-DOS
 SE> from IBM still available and supported.
  Plus OS/2 and Win95 if you had the hardware to run them.
 SE> Is there any advantage to using PC-DOS with Geos? I know
 SE> that PC-DOS 7 has a much smaller footprint than MS-DOS
 SE> 6.22 and supposedly niftier utilities. Any advantage for
 SE> Geoworkers?
  Not sure. I have PC-DOS v5 upgraded through v6.1 to v7 on
my computer and like it very much most of the time but do
MOST of my work through OS/2, which I also like very much
most of the time. The only time that I have run MS-DOS was
the Tandy version, over 5 years ago. I'm just not an MS-
kind-of guy, I guess.
  Just because DR/N-DOS are no longer sold or supported is
not a viable excuse not to run them. They were ahead of the
other DOS's in features, etc. Most folks compare DR-DOSv5
to MS/PC-DOSv6, and v6 to MS/PC-DOS v7, etc. N-DOS even in-
cludes multi-tasking, although it won't multitask a comm
program well, if at all. There were SEVERAL updates (over
10, I think) to N-DOS so it should be about as stable as an
OS gets. I know of a SysOp who has usually preferred Z-DOS
(Zenith's version of MS-DOS... Hi, Thomas!)
 SE> And on an historical note didn't Mr. Bill buy DOS from
 SE> Digital after he had started negotiations with IBM to
 SE> provide them with the operating system for the PC?
  Yup. Gary Allen (I think) was supposedly flying around
all of the time that he was supposed to be meeting with
Mr. Bill and the Big Blue suits so Mr. Bill pushed on
without him.
  Well, this has pretty much become COMPLETELY off-topic,
so I guess that I had better close the thread. Geoworks
programs generally seem to run well on ANY DOS, although
Steve Main was having SOME trouble running v1.x under
PC-DOSv7, while others reported no problems. 
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