Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!voder!blia!heather From: heather@blia.BLI.COM (Heather Mackinnon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Breaking the 640K Barrier Message-ID: <3715@blia.BLI.COM> Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 21:33:34 EST Article-I.D.: blia.3715 Posted: Tue Dec 8 21:33:34 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 18:53:39 EST References: <164300022@uiucdcsb> <1094@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> <1189@homxb.UUCP> <1816@cup.portal.com> Organization: Britton Lee, Los Gatos, CA Lines: 19 Summary: no DOS 3.4 In article <1816@cup.portal.com>, Isaac_K_Rabinovitch@cup.portal.com writes: > simrin@mis.ucsf.edu (Steve Simrin) writes: > ->In article <1189@homxb.UUCP> mr@homxb.UUCP (mark) writes: > ->> > ->>I suspect that DOS 3.4 will fix the 640K [screwup]. (not 3.3) > ->> > -> > ->I don't think so. Breaking the 640k barrier is one of the 2 big > ->features of OS/2 (multitasking being the other). If they fix DOS, it will > ->cut the sales of OS/2 significantly. I talked to Microsoft in an effort to discover when the mythical DOS 3.4 will be released. They told me that there will be no further versions of DOS ever. I mentioned the articles in PC Week and Microsoft said - how shall I put this diplomatically? - that the columnist was misinformed. That makes sense to me. Microsoft has put all of their eggs into OS/2's basket and they aren't about to let DOS upgrades erode the OS/2 market. Heather Mackinnon Britton-Lee, Inc.