Ole Juul
Veteran Member
Does anybody know what the difference is between the different MS-DOS 6.* versions?
I'm not interested in the utilities like DoubleSpace and DriveSpace, but just the kernel files. Although I expect 6.21 would be a little smaller as it might not have reference to either one of those in the kernel. I looked at three versions that I had handy and found the files to be different sizes, so that implies some difference - but what?
Here are the sizes and dates:
PS: I just found a copy of 6.21 but it has the same sizes as 6.22 although the date is 2-13-94.
I'm not interested in the utilities like DoubleSpace and DriveSpace, but just the kernel files. Although I expect 6.21 would be a little smaller as it might not have reference to either one of those in the kernel. I looked at three versions that I had handy and found the files to be different sizes, so that implies some difference - but what?
Here are the sizes and dates:
Code:
6.0 - 3/10/93 6.2 - 9/30/93 6.22 - 5/31/94
IO.SYS 40,470 40,566 40,774 bytes
MSDOS.SYS 38,138 38,138 38,138 bytes
COMMAND.COM 52,925 54,619 54,656 bytes