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To: Steven Bowen who wrote (4226)	12/14/1998 5:46:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 14778

Not necessarilly... There are other Dos's other than MS DOS.... There is DR Dos and Caldera Open Dos and IBM PC Dos all of whic have a version 7 that has nothing to do with Windows 95. Sean

To: Steven Bowen who wrote (4226)	12/14/1998 6:22:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>If an advertised computer says; Operating System: DOS 7.0 Does that mean Win95 then to us computer challenged? Although Sean is correct as to other possibilities, as far as I know none of the mentioned OSs are currently being maintained. IBM's PC DOS license expired a couple of years ago and Microsoft declined to renew it, or so I read. DR-DOS did have a version 7.0 out several years ago, but it's odds-on that the ad referred to Win 95 DOS, IMO. As to why, I could only speculate, but I'll skip it as I suspect it would reveal innate hostile feelings toward marketing types <g>. Spots