I am curious if there is somewhere on the net an archive of OLD Microsoft press releases for certain products. AS an example I'd love to read the Microsoft press release ( or something more technical for us geeks ) for MS-DOS 2.0.. or MS-DOS 3.3 or MS-DOS 5. or Windows 95. lol... just for the hell of it really. I'd love to see what the NEW and improved features of MS-DOS 3.3 were and why I should upgrade. Hehehe. I know somewhere out there these old press releases and maybe even more technical information that was not JUST for the press is sitting in a dark corner of the internet gathering dust . I'd love to dig them up. I looked on the microsoft web site. If this type info is archived on www.microsoft.com I must not have searched for it correctly. Any ideas?

Well said ! �If such a thing is ever found, I sure hope the url is posted. Like Nate, would love to read it.

I am curious if there is somewhere on the net an archive of OLD Microsoft press releases for certain products. AS an example I'd love to read the Microsoft press release ( or something more technical for us geeks ) for MS-DOS 2.0.. or MS-DOS 3.3 or MS-DOS 5. or Windows 95. lol... just for the hell of it really. I'd love to see what the NEW and improved features of MS-DOS 3.3 were and why I should upgrade. Hehehe. I know somewhere out there these old press releases and maybe even more technical information that was not JUST for the press is sitting in a dark corner of the internet gathering dust . I'd love to dig them up. I looked on the microsoft web site. If this type info is archived on www.microsoft.com I must not have searched for it correctly. Not on the Web, as far as I am aware, but the The MS-DOS Encyclopedia from Microsoft press (_essential_ reading for anyone interested in the history of MS-DOS) contains a detailed history of the development of MS-DOS from the early roots of version 1, including many quotes and reproductions of advertisements, contemporary newspaper articles, and other press information from the time. Small quote from one of the reproduced review pages: � Irresistable DOS 3.0 - International support, � file-sharing capabilities, and many other features � in DOS 3.0 result in a significantly enhanced � operating system. The Encyclopedia also includes reproductions of many original hand written specs passed between IBM and Microsoft during the process of development. The MS-DOS Encyclopedia. From: Microsoft Press, 1988. General Editor: Ray Duncan with Foreword: Bill Gates. Unabridged Edition: ISBN 1-55615-174-8 (1,570 pages). Extremely detailed coverage of MS-DOS to version 3.3, with hundreds of fully-annotated source code examples in Assembler and C, and a detailed history of MS-DOS. The book includes masses of information that is still very useful. I've used the information in it to answer many, many NewsGroup questions on MS-DOS, Batch file operations, and assembler routines using DEBUG.

I am curious if there is somewhere on the net an archive of OLD Microsoft press releases for certain products. AS an example I'd love to read the Microsoft press release ( or something more technical for us geeks ) for MS-DOS 2.0.. or MS-DOS 3.3 or MS-DOS 5. or Windows 95. lol... just for the hell of it really. I'd love to see what the NEW and improved features of MS-DOS 3.3 were and why I should upgrade. Hehehe. I know somewhere out there these old press releases and maybe even more technical information that was not JUST for the press is sitting in a dark corner of the internet gathering dust . I'd love to dig them up. I looked on the microsoft web site. If this type info is archived on www.microsoft.com I must not have searched for it correctly. Not on the Web, as far as I am aware, but the The MS-DOS Encyclopedia from Microsoft press (_essential_ reading for anyone interested in the history of MS-DOS) contains a detailed history of the development of MS-DOS from the early roots of version 1, including many quotes and reproductions of advertisements, contemporary newspaper articles, and other press information from the time. Small quote from one of the reproduced review pages: � Irresistable DOS 3.0 - International support, � file-sharing capabilities, and many other features � in DOS 3.0 result in a significantly enhanced � operating system. The Encyclopedia also includes reproductions of many original hand written specs passed between IBM and Microsoft during the process of development. The MS-DOS Encyclopedia. From: Microsoft Press, 1988. General Editor: Ray Duncan with Foreword: Bill Gates. Unabridged Edition: ISBN 1-55615-174-8 (1,570 pages). Extremely detailed coverage of MS-DOS to version 3.3, with hundreds of fully-annotated source code examples in Assembler and C, and a detailed history of MS-DOS. The book includes masses of information that is still very useful. I've used the information in it to answer many, many NewsGroup questions on MS-DOS, Batch file operations, and assembler routines using DEBUG. Is there any information in it on 1) the undocumented int 0x2f network redirector/cdrom interface 2) the how to make dos reentrant i.e., swappable dos area, int 0x21, ah=5d06 or 5d0b Rod Pemberton

Interesting... Well I am not really looking for the history �(well except it might be fun to remember a bit about that too I guess now that I am writing this). I am an old hand at DOS. I started with an 8088 with MS-DOS 3.3. I was just wondering if there were any press releases to I could sit and read about all the NEW and INPROVED features of MS-DOS 4.01 �(as an example). �What can 4.01 do. Why should I spend money do upfrade. I �suppose tech mag articles would work too. �But I was especially interested in the Microsoft perspective on why we should spend our cash to �upgrade. I was trying to remeber. I think I went from 3.3 to 4.01 to 5.0 to 6.0 to 6.2.0 to 6.22 I hope I didn't jumble anything up.

2) the how to make dos reentrant i.e., swappable dos area, int 0x21, ah=5d06 or 5d0b Again, see Undocumented DOS, Schulman et al (various pages, but see especially the example code on pages 558 and 559 of the Second Edition) on the use of the InDos and Critical Error flags through the various INT 21 sub-subfunctions of 5D (both flags must be checked before deciding it's safe to re-enter MS-DOS).