25 Jul
2021
25 Jul
'21
10:46 a.m.
On 7/24/21 10:26 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
My recollection of the DMF Microsoft period was that
if you purchased
a retail MS product using the DMF format and couldn't get it read
on your system, a call to MS would result in a standard format copy
being shipped.
It's my understanding that The DMF disks that Microsoft (and comparable
from IBM with PC-DOS) used a different non-FAT file
system which took up
less space on the disk, thus yielding more storage for data.
But that
they both fit on the same /standard/ ""1.44 MB disks.
I also seem to recall that Macintosh's could get 1.7 MB on the same
""1.44 MB disks.
But I could be completely wrong.
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