6 Jun
2013
6 Jun
'13
11 a.m.
On 06/06/2013 10:30 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
I used to assign, "Write your own VER program,
[discussion of function
30h] . . . and try it on the machines in the lab" (not all of which
were PC-DOS 3.30)
One student used function 9 to print "MS-DOS version 3.3"
What grade should I have given him?
Depends on the grading system used and whether or not the student had
"issues". (Ducks and covers)
Some 4.xx issues were real, SOME WEREN'T. The
most heavily talked about
"ISSUE" was, "4 won't run Norton Utilities!", meaning that
Norton
Futilities didn't understand the >32M drive structures.
I didn't use Norton and still had sufficient problems with
out-of-the-box PC-DOS 4.0 to drop back to Compaq DOS 3.31 until the
problems had been resolved.
--Chuck