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Subject: DOS 3.3
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Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 09:05:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  8 09:05:00 1987
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So far... (sorry, folks my mailer doesn't have one of those handy
   name and id-tag extractors; I do the best I can with obsolecent
    equipment).

->IBM is also at version 3.3.  Does this mean that this will be the last
->update of MS-DOS, or is this just a coincidence?

->Premature to predict the end of IBM's dominance of desktop computing,

It appears that MS-DOS also stops at 3.3 which has nothing to do with
whether IBM dominates desktop computing (I thought the PC market was
dominated by Asian clone makers anyway).

Apple has ProDOS, IBM has OS/2 (supposed to be on retail shelves this
month -- memory hog -- has anyone actually seen a copy?).  It appears
it'll be 6 months to a year before anything other than demoware that
actually requires OS/2 will be around)

CP/M may have been a "serious" operating system (for cost effective
CP/M it made more sense to buy a Z80 computer), but I've been quite
serious using DOS 3.3 for some years now (shoot I can remember when
32K was a BIG mainframe).  I'm saving my $$$ for a Mac II+ (the 68030
machine); meanwhile I continue plinking away on Apple II and let
the big number cruncher (IBM mainframe) do the big stuff.

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ARPA:   sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu       Murphy A. Sewall
BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM                          School of Business Admin.
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