> Even though it's a good idea to include a decompression utility, in fact > Microsoft did not have one bundled with their DOS until version 6.0.
I've only had original Microsoft disks of MS-DOS 5.0 but in there EXPAND.EXE is on the 5th disk and most of the files on the other disks are compressed, with the extensions renamed to .EX_ .SY_ etc. I don't know when they started doing this but it's at least 5.0. > Early versions of MS' DOS did not have anything compressed and didn't > even have an installer. I'm sure that's true for the early versions but then the early versions of everything are usually much more limited. I suppose you could argue that SYS was a kind of installer though and that's been there for a while :) > Digital Research's DOS came up first with an > installer and pretty much everything. Microsoft was always playing > catch up with them and always had the DOS with the least features at > every point in time. MS' DOS is the cheap consumer DOS. Not really > the holy grail of DOS. Can't really disagree, but MS-DOS is the one that took it mainstream and made DOS so widely used so that's the only reason why I use it as the example. Cheers, Adam. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
