21 Jul
2014
21 Jul
'14
8:16 a.m.
> PC-DOS/MS-DOS 3.10 (three point ten) had a limit
of 32M for a regular hard
> disk.
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Christian Corti wrote:
You're wrong, this was the FAT partition size
limit, not the disk size
limit. You could well have a much larger drive in your system and
partition it accordingly, as long as the disk BIOS could address
everything properly.
You're right. As I said in th4e previous retraction, the 32M limit is for
a DOS [before 3.31] logival "drive". That limit is NOT a limit to the
size of the physical drive, and it was quite common to use larger drives,
such as 40M or 80M, broken up into multiple DOS logical drives.