20 Nov
2007
20 Nov
'07
6:39 a.m.
On 19 Nov 2007 at 18:38, Fred Cisin wrote:
MICROS~1 was inconsistent. FDISK used 2 ^ 20 for MB,
but other modules
didn't. FORMAT calls the 1.4M diskette "1.44", indicating that it used
(2 ^ 10) * (10 *3)
Until the rest of the world decided otherwise, I referred to HD disks
as 1200K and 1440K. At least that was honest. The 1.2MB and 1.44MB
were simply perversions, I assume for shorthand purposes.
To their credit, as of MS-DOS 6.22, the HELP for FORMAT gives 1440K,
1200K and 2800K as the *first* of several alternatives for specifying
capacity. 2K and later drops the "K" forms in the HELP file, but
FORMAT still accepts them.
So honesty is at least nodded at.
Cheers,
Chuck