What are the advantages and disadvantages of upgrading DOS?
The advantages are pretty much common knowledge. Upgrading DOS can give you upper memory blocks (saving conventional memory), online help, task switching, Interlink (for transferring files between computers), and hard drive compression. Many people have upgraded successfully. Here are the disadvantages, according to Tandy: The early 1000’s up to and including the 1000TX computer have problems formatting and reading floppy drives to their fullest capacity with any DOS higher than DOS 3.2. These formatting and reading problems show themselves as a 720K drive behaving as a 360K drive. The 1000’s have also shown problems with hard drive FAT tables being scrambled or corrupted by DOS version higher than 3.2, thereby rendering the hard drive inoperable! The 1000’s ROM DOS-Based systems will lose the use of Deskmate if any other version of DOS is loaded other than the one it was shipped with. The Tandy 1000 ROM DOS based computers are either 8088, 8086, or 286XT’s, because of this they can’t
