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Considering DOS (Users)

posted by DOS386, 30.07.2011, 15:17

> (1) should I use MS-DOS 6.22/MS-DOS 7.1 or one of the compatible OSs e.g.
> FreeDOS, and if so why?
I recommend FreeDOS or EDR-DOS (I have both in my BOOT-MENU).

> (2) given that I'll be running DOS on a PC with 3 or 4 GB of RAM, I presume
> DOS won't cough at this i.e. DOS will just 'see' 640k conventional RAM
DOS will see just 640 KiB, right.

> up to 16MB EMS/XMS?
Up to 2 GiB or 4 GiB (- PCI MMIO space) RAM as XMS and for good DOS extenders.

> (3) would I be better using FAT16 or FAT32 filing system?
| > 2 GiB FAT28 is necessary
| 1/2 GiB to 2 GiB depends
| < 1/2 GiB use FAT16

> (5) what other utilities (not included in MS-DOS or FreeDOS) do the
> experts on this forum recommend?
See answer above.

> The quality of the FreeDOS utilities varies from "unusable" to "excellent",
> so one cannot say much in general.
Right :-| There is no good SCANDISK or DEFRAG for example.

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