Hi Rugxulo,
> If you already have the original gold standard of DOSes, i.e. MS-DOS
> (which was widely tested and hugely popular, by far the most
> ubiquitous DOS), then you don't urgently "need" any other DOS
> clone at all all, period.
Being the most widely used does not equal being the best.
Thanks to everyone on the FreeDOS list who tried to help me. I learned
a few things. After careful consideration I decided to go in a
different direction. I installed MS-DOS 7.10. It is now running
smoothly on my 486 laptop. I had to set up the SCSI drives by writing
a few lines into autoexec.bat a
