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    This document discusses the history and features of different versions of the DOS operating system. It notes that early versions of DOS used more RAM than later versions. It also describes how later versions of DOS integrated features of Windows and allowed graphical user interfaces. The document recounts the author's experience receiving many large manuals upon purchasing their first computer without any prior knowledge of DOS or computers.

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    This document discusses the history and features of different versions of the DOS operating system. It notes that early versions of DOS used more RAM than later versions. It also describes how later versions of DOS integrated features of Windows and allowed graphical user interfaces. The document recounts the author's experience receiving many large manuals upon purchasing their first computer without any prior knowledge of DOS or computers.

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    DOS Instruction Manuals

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    This document discusses the history and features of different versions of the DOS operating system. It notes that early versions of DOS used more RAM than later versions. It also describes how later versions of DOS integrated features of Windows and allowed graphical user interfaces. The document recounts the author's experience receiving many large manuals upon purchasing their first computer without any prior knowledge of DOS or computers.

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    any RAM that you may need for other programs.

    In addition, most new


    wordprocessor, spreadsheet, and database application programs have a simple
    DOS menu as one of their command options. A wonderful DOS menu program
    came with my mouse (a hand held instrument that moves the cursor around on the
    computer screen); and another menu system is part of the program I'm using to
    type this manual!

    If you have one of the newer computers that permits you to have more than 640K
    of RAM, and if you have a large enough hard disk, you may enjoy using an
    elaborate DOS shell referred to as "Windows". This shell (as well as the ones
    mentioned above) allows you to give commands to DOS by using a mouse. You
    use the mouse to interact with a GUI (graphical user interface) where you
    manipulate words or icons (little drawings) instead of typing commands. Such a
    "visual environment" was popularized by the Macintosh line of Apple computers.
    To take full advantage of a Windows shell, you'll need a high-powered computer
    and application software written specifically for Windows use.

    DOS 5 can operate the new 2.88MB floppy disk. Another notable feature of 5.0 is
    that it uses slightly less RAM than does 4.0. And if your computer has extra RAM
    added beyond 640K, DOS 5.0 can be set up to need for itself only about 20K of
    "conventional" RAM. That's half of what even DOS 2.0 needs. What a great
    improvement!

    DOS 6 hasn't been released yet, but a spokesperson for Microsoft recently
    announced that Version 6 would combine features of DOS, Windows, and OS/2.
    DOS 6 is to be available in 2 flavors: one for older, less-powerful computers, and
    one for newer, high-powered ones.

    DOS Instruction Manuals

    I bought my first computer not knowing a thing about DOS or computers. To my


    dismay, I ended up with a huge pile of books to read, even before I'd unpacked
    the computer!

    The USER'S GUIDE provided by my computer's manufacturer was only 164


    pages long. But the DOS manual itself was 352 pages, and the GW-BASIC one
    another 347 pages. Then there was the 191-page USER'S MANUAL for the
    printer and the 756-page book one of my well-intentioned friends had suggested I

    VeryEasyDOSv2, copyright 1989, 1991, by J. Zorich-- Page 6 of 86

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