Jim Leonard wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Now, there's an interesting challenge--can
one get Windows (probably 3.x)
to fit on a single floppy such that generic GUI functionality (640x480
video, PS/2 mouse, etc.) is preserved?
Of course, but you'd be "cheating" -- one way I can think of is to
format the diskette with doublespace/drivespace and store everything in
the compressed volume. DOS boots up, mounts the compressed volume, et
voila you have about 3MB+ to play with.
...just thought of another way to "cheat": format the larger tracks with
more sectors per track to gain more space, and patch the boot code
and/or BIOS to compensate. I never booted from such disks, but I have
definitely screwed around with capacity successfully (for example,
formatting a 360K disk to 410K, or a 1.4MB disk to 1.8MB, etc.).
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