MS-Dos

Recently we moved and I found an un-opened box of MS-DOS 5.0 upgrade. I don't even recall buying this, but it must have been just before the time Windows was released. Started me thinking.... Should I load this on an old 386?

Dale

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DAB over 10 years ago +3

It should work on the 386 and might work on 486 standard motherboards. I think version 5 was a fix just before they came out with MSDOS 6.0 to host Windows 3.1. Been a lot of years since then. DAB
clem57 over 10 years ago in reply to DAB +2

Would it be a blast to catalog how many modern machines can run MS/PC-DOS? I wonder a contest o f sorts. LOL Clem
COMPACT over 10 years ago in reply to DAB +2

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dwinhold over 10 years ago

I just dusted off the old 386 and will see how well it runs, it has a huge 170mb hard drive.... It is funny how we can't even run computers on that much RAM. This will be fun to go back in time with it. I will have to update what is even on the drive, I haven't got a clue.
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dwinhold over 10 years ago

I just dusted off the old 386 and will see how well it runs, it has a huge 170mb hard drive.... It is funny how we can't even run computers on that much RAM. This will be fun to go back in time with it. I will have to update what is even on the drive, I haven't got a clue.
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